CCASMANUKA
9 Feb - 19 February, 2006

2005 Residency Program Artists' Exhibition

The Desert of the Real Itself
Stephanie Hicks

The Desert of the Real Itself is the title of both the exhibition and a series of faux-polaroids with varying relationships to reality, constructed from found images and photographs I have taken myself. There is particular connection between the timeless nature of Plaroid photography(suggested by image quality/colour temperature) and the scary nostalgic quality of, for example, the planned town of Celebration, Florida. The link between authenticitiy and the past ( the idea that things that are older or come from past eras are somehow more real) is also considered through use of a simple and tactile method of cut and paste as opposed to digital technologies.

Stephanie Hicks