Marie Claire RIP (2004-2007)

Exhibited at:

2011
Matt Roberts Gallery, London

2009
Photography Triennial, Helsinki

2008
Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow
Minnesota Centre of Photography, USA

2007
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Photographers do not bend gallery, Dallas USA
Clampart gallery, New York USA
Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden
Darmstadter tage de fotografie, Germany

2006
Emerging photographers Show, Toronto Canada

Marie Claire RIP is based on an article published in Marie Claire magazine in 2002 featuring police mug-shots of the same woman taken over a fourteen year period. The article revealed that not long after the last picture was taken the woman was found dead. Marie Claire RIP is a re-staging of these images using the artist as subject.

This piece was motivated by a desire to memorialise an unnamed person, a woman who had already died and had no control over the use of her image. At the same time the piece is intended to be non-specific in terms of the nature of the character’s demise..

While the piece challenges the veracity of the photographic portrait it also finds an authenticity in a notion of self-portraiture that involves acting. It is me and it isn’t her and yet it is her and it isn’t me at the same time.

The series is available as limited edition prints. Please see Editions.