HELEN SEAR
BEYOND THE VIEW
14 October – 23 November 2012
Monday and Wednesday
5 pm – 7 pm on appointment
The exhibition
HELEN SEAR
BEYOND THE VIEW
14 October – 23 November 2012
The eye and its surrogate the camera lens are recurrent motifs in Helen Sear‘s work, both as a means for fine demarcation of the forms, patterns and textures of the exterior world and as a portal to the interior realm of dreams and mystery.
Sear‘s work challenges the dominant view of photography as a documentary medium, questioning its indexical relationship with the world. Photography, whether in its analogue or digital form, may enable us to view up close the surface details of objects, but in doing so our perceptual experience of them becomes more ambiguous and fragmented, belying their apparent unity and coherence. Therein lies the paradoxical nature of visual perception, in particular, and our sensory experience and apprehension of the world more generally.
This exhibition brings together works reflecting the artist‘s exploration of the relationship between colour and form, figure and ground, the visible and the unseen.
David Drake
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Exhibition opening
Saturday, 13 October 2012 at 5 pm
bildkultur | galerie, Markelstr. 19, 70193 Stuttgart
Introduction
Dr. Matthias Bullinger | bildkultur Stuttgart
David Drake | Ffotogallery Cardiff
The exhibition is on view
from Sunday 14 October – Friday 23 November 2012
Gallery
hours
Monday and Wednesday
5 pm – 7 pm on appointment