‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’ brings together a group of artists to extend our perceptions of photography and image-making into new realms. Highlighting the permeability of photography, the exhibition questions the relationship between image and reality, asking how images operate and how they can be created without a camera.
Forms of photography that have been liberated from a traditional relationship between camera and print are explored as the selected artists negotiate the possibilities of installation, time and space, and early photographic techniques.
‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’ challenges the very nature of pictorial representation - and photography's inherent self-reflexivity with examples of bold, boundary-pushing experimentation.
Featuring: Christian Capurro, Ben Cauchi, Danica Chappell, Peta Clancy, Daniel Crooks, Izabela Pluta and Robyn Stacey.
Official Exhibition of the PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography.
‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’ is a group exhibition on display at Town Hall Gallery from Saturday 23 January to Saturday 10 April 2021.
Image credit: Izabela Pluta, detail from 'Iterative composition 1979 (pages 17-18 Australia)', 2020, pigment print on Eco Solvent Cotton Rag paper, mounted on dibond, 124 x 200cm, image courtesy of the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.
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Works by the artists
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Daniel Crooks, ‘Portrait #8 (Andy)’, 2012, Lambda photographic print, 130 x 130cm, image courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Daniel Crooks, ‘Portrait #11 (Hannah)’, 2012, Lambda photographic print, 130 x 130cm, image courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Daniel Crooks, ‘Portrait #9 (Takeshi)’, 2012, Lambda photographic print, 130 x 130cm, image courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Izabela Pluta, ‘Blue spectrum and descent 12 (Variation 4)’, 2020, Cyanotype, framed, 52 x 42cm, image courtesy of the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.
Izabela Pluta, ‘Iterative composition 1979 (pages 17-18 Australia)’, 2020, pigment print on Eco Solvent Cotton Rag Paper, mounted on dibond, 124 x 200cm, image courtesy of the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.
Izabela Pluta, detail from ‘Spatial misalignments’, 2018, 60 silver gelatin prints, 61 x 40.6cm, image courtesy of the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.
Peta Clancy, ‘Mappings of Place 1’, ‘Punctures’, 2015-2020, inkjet pigment print, framed, 56 x 80cm, image courtesy of the artist and Dominik Mersch Gallery.
Peta Clancy, ‘Mappings of Place 2’, ‘Punctures’, 2015-2020, inkjet pigment print, framed, 56 x 80cm, image courtesy of the artist and Dominik Mersch Gallery.
Peta Clancy, ‘Punctures 1’, 2015-2020, inkjet pigment print, framed, 56 x 80cm, image courtesy of the artist and Dominik Mersch Gallery.
Danica Chappell, ‘Indexing #1-6’, 2014, E6 transparency, custom timber frame, dimension and orientation viable, image courtesy of the artist.
Danica Chappell, ‘Eye Glass (for Glass Eye)’, 2019, Chromogenic photograph, custom steel frame, 70 x 50cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Christian Capurro, ‘ICEdust #32’, 2016, C-Type photograph, 160 x 115cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Christian Capurro, ‘ICEdust #71’, 2016, C-Type photograph, 160 x 115cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Ben Cauchi, ‘An accumulation’, 2013, wet-collodion on acrylic sheet, unique, 25 x 20cm (plate size), image courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery.
Ben Cauchi, ‘The thin blue of a winter sky’, 2013, wet-collodion on acrylic sheet, unique, 20 x 25cm (plate size), image courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery.
Ben Cauchi, ‘False hope’, 2010, wet-collodion on acrylic, 36 x 28cm (plate size), image courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery.
Robyn Stacey, ‘Geoff Kleem’s Studio, Parramatta Road’, 2016, type C print, 110 x 156cm, edition 1 of 5, image courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery.
Robyn Stacey, ‘King William Room, Parliament House’, 2016, type C print, 110 x 146.7cm, edition 1 of 5, image courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery.
Robyn Stacey, ‘Photography Studio National Art School, Building 22’, 2016, type C print, 110 x 147cm, edition 1 of 5, image courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery.
Reconfigured/Rediscovered is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography.
Exhibition photography
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Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Izabela Pluta, Christian Capurro and Daniel Crooks is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Daniel Crooks is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Visitors at the official opening of ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Christian Capurro and Daniel Crooks is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Izabela Pluta and Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Izabela Pluta is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Ben Cauchi and Izabela Pluta is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Ben Cauchi is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Peta Clancy and Izabela Pluta is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Peta Clancy is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Peta Clancy is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Visitors at the official opening of ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Peta Clancy is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Robyn Stacey and Peta Clancy is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Visitor at the official opening of ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Robyn Stacey is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Robyn Stacey is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Danica Chappell is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Danica Chappell is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Danica Chappell is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Danica Chappell is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Danica Chappell and Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Installation view, ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Visitors at the official opening of ‘Reconfigured/Rediscovered’, Town Hall Gallery, 2021. Artwork by Christian Capurro is pictured. Photography by Christian Capurro.
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Watch the Reconfigured/ Rediscovered described online tour
Watch an online described tour of Reconfigured/Rediscovered.
This online tour was led by Will McRostie from Description Victoria alongside curators from the Town Hall Gallery and artist Danica Chappell from the exhibition.