Title

Written With Darkness

Venues

UTS Gallery (12 October 2004 – 5 November 2004)

Date

(2004)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Photographs

Curator

Ross Gibson

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Selected photographs from the Corrigan Collection

It's almost a cliche nowadays to point out that the word "photography" literally means "light-writing". But what if we turned that notion inside out and concentrated on how important the darkness is in many pictures? And what if we took this idea to the installation of such an exhibition too? In a gallery filled with carefully designed shadowing and glimmering, we would encounter pictures dependent on the absence of light ...a kind of deliberate, artful unphotography.

When inspecting a large collection of Australian photography currently lent to UTS by art patron Pat Corrigan, guest curator Ross Gibson noticed how many of the photographs were "written with darkness". How intriguing, he thought, to embrace this visible thickness, to treat darkness as the theme and the defining medium of an exhibition. [gallery media]