Dark matter
By: Ann Shelton
Contributors: Auckland Art Gallery
Publisher: Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Auckland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780864633095
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Artistic Photography
Description: "Dark Matter is an exploration of the lens-based practice of Ann Shelton in which time, place, narrative, trauma and female authorship unfold in shifting and destabilising ways. Her engagement with the fragmented nature of the social body, particularly those of counter cultures, and those who are at the edges of culture both literally or as subjects in film or literature, has been the force behind major bodies of work from Redeye to Public Places. Other substantial works such as once more from the street and in a forest reveal the conceptual focus and psychological strategies Shelton brings in her dialogue with overlooked and unwanted histories. Works introduce clues to an uncertain narrative and they are destabilising in the sense of offering concrete clues to an unsolvable mystery. Dark Matter includes new work created in the studio that reveals Shelton's ability to recover the unseen and overlooked histories and bring them into the light of day. Shelton's photographs are a locus for the unfolding of the deep investigations in which meaning always remains at one remove."--Publisher description.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery, November 2016, April 2017.

Issued in a slip case.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ways of loving: a conversation / between Ann Shelton and Cassandra Barnett, 20 May 2016; title: Home and homelessness: Ann Shelton's aesthetics of displacement / Donna West Brett; title: Haunting and archives in the time of the now / Abigail Solomon-Godeau; title: Bodies at the vanishing point: 'doublethink' and Ann Shelton's evental photographic constructions / Dorita Hannah and John Di Stefano; title: Rooted in a dark history, exposed to light: Ann Shelton's photographs 'in a forest' / Ulrich Baer; title: The dark light: the matter of Ann Shelton's art / Zara Stanhope.