Title

Promise of the future, by Pam Debenham.

Author

Debenham, Pam.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

1987

Type

About the work

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Promise of the future.

Prints are inherently about translation. In this work I have concerned myself with the exploration of images that have their origin in mass culture, translating them not only to reproduce them as screenprints or linocuts, but to isolate, refocus, invert, make strange, and to interrupt their original significance against other images and processes of image-making of different kinds.

These suggest re-reading of form, image, text and origins, and a way of re-producing meanings in our own time. In this way, through the actual and symbolic use of the printing processes of higher and lower technologies, through recontextualised and reinvented images, the visual language of authority, security and control is able to be challenged in the material and process of the work itself.

But, always, how to deal with the imagery of power and make it vulnerable, questionable, in our own terms?

© Pam Debenham, 1987.
Extract from Shocking Diversity, Sydney: Australia Print Council, 1987, p. 5.

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