The exhibition 'Photography and the Performative' at Sydney University's Chau Chak Wing Museum, displays a work by Imants Tillers, If I close my eyes. His instagram website describes it thus :
Curated by Katrina Liberiou, the show explores the intersection between photography and performance.
Imants Tillers
If I close my eyes (2021)
189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161
10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall)
University of Sydney Art Collection
This conceptual work comprises 189 Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers carried a camera with him during his daily life and documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.”
Imants Tillers
If I close my eyes (2021)
189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161
10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall)
University of Sydney Art Collection
This conceptual work comprises 189 Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers carried a camera with him during his daily life and documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.”
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‘Taking After Redon’ re-imagines ‘If I close my eyes’ with the views of Sirius Cove replaced by views of Odilon Redon’s ‘Les yeux clos’ (Closed Eyes) c.1890.
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
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