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island is pleased to present My image is a lens, a solo exhibition by Rowan Renee.
Renee transforms the gallery into a photographic darkroom, paying homage to the process of analog photography as a metaphor for personal development and healing. Drawing from their decade-long archive of self-portraits, many of which have never been seen, Renee has created a series of photographic prints from handmade stained glass negatives. These are presented within an immersive environment that poetically reinterprets darkroom tools – development trays, negative carriers and enlargers – through light, water and sound.
In “Slipping, count the seconds”, a fragment of their body emanates within the layered composition between splashes of darkroom chemistry and streaks of kiln-fused glass. Renee sees life-affirming potential in artifacts of the photographic process. Each print is a signpost on a journey. In the gallery, the prints are presented on a room-sized metal armature that echoes…
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island is pleased to present My image is a lens, a solo exhibition by Rowan Renee.
Renee transforms the gallery into a photographic darkroom, paying homage to the process of analog photography as a metaphor for personal development and healing. Drawing from their decade-long archive of self-portraits, many of which have never been seen, Renee has created a series of photographic prints from handmade stained glass negatives. These are presented within an immersive environment that poetically reinterprets darkroom tools – development trays, negative carriers and enlargers – through light, water and sound.
In “Slipping, count the seconds”, a fragment of their body emanates within the layered composition between splashes of darkroom chemistry and streaks of kiln-fused glass. Renee sees life-affirming potential in artifacts of the photographic process. Each print is a signpost on a journey. In the gallery, the prints are presented on a room-sized metal armature that echoes…
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