Jacky Redgate, Untitled (Vase Shape #1–#5), 1989, wood, ceramic, acrylic. Installation view, Jacky Redgate: Life of the System: 1980 – 2005, 2005.
JACKY REDGATE’s work, Untitled – Vast Shape #1-5 (1989) has been written about in Over Journal, Issue 2. In this issue, Yvette Hamilton reflects on the paradoxical expansion of photography in her essay Beyond Ocular Vision.
“Whilst created before the widespread prevalence of the idea of non-human photography, Australian artist Jacky Redgate’s 1989 series, Untitled, Vase Shape draws attention to the complex relationship between representation and human vision within photography. Through mimicking the shape of a photographic infinity screen and placing a vase shaped sculpture within it, both of which are painted a velvety matte black, Redgate’s work speaks of photographic vision and its failure. Her actions make the objects barely visible and almost impossible to photograph, a decision that makes the work very much dependent on the human presence of the viewer in the exhibition space.”
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