In Pursuit of an Apparition, Hands Can Miss the Object (Special Edition)
In Pursuit of an Apparition, Hands Can Miss the Object (Special Edition)
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.
A5 booklet, 48 pages including cover, on recycled natural uncoated paper 100gsm, cover 250gsm plus loose-leaf inserted images printed on various papers and sizes. Each edition has a different set of inserted images.
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This zine is part of a long-term collaborative project with Maria, in which we respond, alone and together, to philosopher Vilem Flusser's writing. We might re-respond to the generations, artefacts and assemblages we create, with and against the ‘central apparatus’. In doing so, Maria and I, along with the work we both make, are drawn into a series of intra-active formations, reformations and dissolutions. By working this way, we acknowledge our inherent separate identities, as well as the fluidity and porosity of the varied entangled and messy relations between each of us; the humans, the objects, the processes, the phantasies and the dreams.