IMANTS TILLERS in 'Photography and the Performative'

Imants Tillers has a fascinating work comprised of 189 Polaroid images that is now on display at 'Photography and the Performative' exhibition at the Chau Chak Wing Museum in Sydney curated by Katrina Liberiou.

'If I close my eyes' (2021) is a conceptual work comprises Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers 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, [details from:] 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). Collection: University of Sydney