Patrick Pound
dal 14/4/2002 al 4/5/2002
Segnalato da
14/4/2002
Patrick Pound
Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy
Patrick Pound constructs an elaborate installation involving found images, snapshots and scrapbook pastings, pinned floor to ceiling. The evidence is pasted in a vast array of scrapbooks and albums. Their pages are torn out and pinned to the walls in a manic flow chart of connections from giant vegetables to miniature Tudor villages, from kit set homes to model air planes.
In THE MEMORY ROOM Patrick Pound constructs an
elaborate installation involving found images, snapshots
and scrapbook pastings, pinned floor to ceiling. This
'memory room' is the bedroom of a fictional character who
attempts to understand and explain the world by collecting
it...
Patrick Pound has exhibited widely throughout Australia
and New Zealand and his work is held in the collections of
numerous public institutions including the National Gallery
of Victoria, the Dunedin Art Gallery and the Museum of
New Zealand. Pound was recently featured in 'Bright
Paradise', the 1st Auckland Triennial (2001), Auckland Art
Gallery.
The memory room is the bedroom of a character who while
trying to explain the world has been reduced to collecting
it. The evidence is pasted in a vast array of scrapbooks
and albums. Their pages are torn out and pinned to the
walls in a manic flow chart of connections from giant
vegetables to miniature Tudor villages, from kit set homes
to model air planes. The scrapbooks are themselves a
model of the world. There are snaps of the rooms of
Kabakov, Nan Goldin, Edward Weston, Anne Frank and
Captain Cook. There are postcards of Marie Antoinette's
fake dairy and photos of fictional islands. The room
operates as an archive and a listing device. While the list
seems endless, the connections, literally, are. This strange
sorting machine has everything from a photo album with
braille captions to a collection of twenty six brown things.
Opening 11 April 6-8pm
CCP Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston Street Fitzroy VIC 3065 Australia