SPACE A
POINT FAREWELL
JO SCICLUNA + VIVIAN COOPER SMITH
Point Farewell is a collaborative project by photo-based artists Jo Scicluna and Vivian Cooper Smith that is as much about a process of exchange as it is an allusion to a particular, inhabitable place. An ongoing dialogue between the two artists reinforced a shared attitude towards the photograph as a dynamic object and to the process of ‘place-making’ in their respective practices.
How, then, can two photographers collaborate so that they share ‘ownership’ of a work? Throughout the highly mediated process that is photography, at which point does this exchange occur?
Scicluna and Smith have devised a working model involving the exchange of photographic images. Through a process of physical manipulation or abstraction both the subject and the photographic object are charged with alternative meanings/significance. This process demonstrates the subjective process of place-making and explores the difficulties associated with the ‘place’ and it’s perceived meaning.
What new ‘landscapes’ may emerge through this interplay – this material colonisation of place?
Presented by c3 Projects.
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.
