In Pursuit of an Apparition, Hands Can Miss the Object is a collaborative project where found, synthesised, printed, and digital artefacts meet in unusual configurations. Their juxtaposition sparks an enigmatic visual dialogue between a range of materials.
Maria Ahmed uses collage strategies to excavate, fragment and disrupt images, opening them up to multiple, unstable readings. In turn, Sarah-Jane Field positions seductive and elliptical 21st-century machine-generated output in conference with found visual fragments from 20th-century books that focus on photographic flaws and supposed [im]perfections. In a sequence that welcomes unpredictability, a dance of resistance and control emerges as artists performatively push and pull against the work – and each other – in a playful conversation about today's image-saturated culture (2024).
A5 booklet, 48 pages including cover, on recycled natural uncoated paper 100gsm, cover 250gsm. Purchase here.