Andrew Wright Still Water

Multimedia and photographic artist
Andrew Wright creates a particular
kind of imagery that both identifies
and challenges conventional uses and
understandings of photographic practice.
In Still Water, his new photo-sculptural
series, he continues his interest
in probing the way in which imaging
technologies mediate meaning. Wright
has explored antique optical devices,
such as the camera obscura, as well
as contemporary electronic strategies
to question conventional approaches
to image making and interpretation.
Wright’s subjects vary, but they often
take on traditional tropes (landscape,
portraiture, the natural world, the cinema)
to create perceptual bridges that
examine the very conditions of image
production. The artist sees the seemingly
inevitable demise of traditional
photographic techniques as problematic,
and the beginning of a void.
Therefore, photographic “blackness”
has become increasingly important in
his investigations.

Using images of an endless waterfall
at night, Wright’s new work posits
an experience of the photographic that
sits mid-way between picture plane
and object in the round. The photographs
are simultaneously recognizable
representations that make use of
perspectival space, and two-dimensional
images of pattern and hue that
occupy the real space of the viewer.
They become forms of the here and
now while referring to an uncertain
elsewhere.