Contemporary Australia: Women

98 Working images (details) for Watch me slip through these thin sheets 2012 Opposite Erysichthon’s ball 2010 Collaged colour photographs, polymer based fiberglass, wood 220cm (diam.) Installation view, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2010 Photograph: John Brash Image courtesy: The artist and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne of techniques available, for example, they would blur the body by simply taking photographs from odd angles or by contorting the body into uncanny positions. The strange nature of these images was amplified by then doubling the image, through double exposure or montage. Mirrors and photography are supposed to capture and reflect reality, but, instead, in Watch me slip through these thin sheets they propagate a strongly surreal view of the world. Justine Khamara’s abstraction of the image forces the viewer to look beyond the image to the materiality of the work: to the way in which form and content compete within a single work. Ellie Buttrose