'From the Corners offers a more intentional and intuitive practice, where the audience and the artist become the witness to the slow and uncanny embodiment of poetic memory on the paper.'
Artist Statement
Heterotopia is a term developed by Michel Foucault to describe discursive, strange and isolating spaces that exist as an “other” in relation to the world around them. The darkroom is a heterotopia that exists outside the constraints of linear time — it is a transformative, solitary and poetic space. Within this cool and dark space, time as we perceive it is slowed and this experience provides a freedom and elusiveness to art making. From the Corners is a poetic exploration of the ephemeral memories, thoughts and dreams contained within the most intimate spaces of our domestic lives, capturing them as distilled fragments. The spaces that contain these memories are brought to life and materialised through analogue photographic practices. From the Corners offers a metaphysical experience of the darkroom and the home as a world within a world. It aims to challenge the didactic expectations of photography, to subvert its accuracy and explore a poetic and metaphysical approach to image making, rather than the calculative and perfected. By working in this way, From the Corners offers a more intentional and intuitive practice, where the audience and the artist become the witness to the slow and uncanny embodiment of poetic memory on the paper.
Artist Bio
Cailyn Forrest is a Sydney based artist working primarily with analogue photographic techniques. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree and is in the final year of her Master of Fine Art at The National Art School. Within her practice, she aims to subvert the analytical and calculative techniques of the darkroom, using those skills to intentionally distort her images. In doing this, she’s able to take a feminine approach and create a ghostly softness in her prints. An essential theme in Cailyn’s current work is the experience of time in relation to image making and domestic life. This presents itself in her slow and considered approach to art. Cailyn’s work is influenced by writers Gaston Bachelard and Michel Foucault for their poetic approach to the spaces of our everyday lives. She has a desire to exist in a slowed and poetic space as her influences describe and to capture the experience of these spaces within her photographic practice. Cailyn aims to take a gentle intentionality into her work as she takes the time to consider the memories and thoughts contained within her own domestic occupation as they slowly appear in print.
Artist Statement
Heterotopia is a term developed by Michel Foucault to describe discursive, strange and isolating spaces that exist as an “other” in relation to the world around them. The darkroom is a heterotopia that exists outside the constraints of linear time — it is a transformative, solitary and poetic space. Within this cool and dark space, time as we perceive it is slowed and this experience provides a freedom and elusiveness to art making. From the Corners is a poetic exploration of the ephemeral memories, thoughts and dreams contained within the most intimate spaces of our domestic lives, capturing them as distilled fragments. The spaces that contain these memories are brought to life and materialised through analogue photographic practices. From the Corners offers a metaphysical experience of the darkroom and the home as a world within a world. It aims to challenge the didactic expectations of photography, to subvert its accuracy and explore a poetic and metaphysical approach to image making, rather than the calculative and perfected. By working in this way, From the Corners offers a more intentional and intuitive practice, where the audience and the artist become the witness to the slow and uncanny embodiment of poetic memory on the paper.
Artist Bio
Cailyn Forrest is a Sydney based artist working primarily with analogue photographic techniques. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree and is in the final year of her Master of Fine Art at The National Art School. Within her practice, she aims to subvert the analytical and calculative techniques of the darkroom, using those skills to intentionally distort her images. In doing this, she’s able to take a feminine approach and create a ghostly softness in her prints. An essential theme in Cailyn’s current work is the experience of time in relation to image making and domestic life. This presents itself in her slow and considered approach to art. Cailyn’s work is influenced by writers Gaston Bachelard and Michel Foucault for their poetic approach to the spaces of our everyday lives. She has a desire to exist in a slowed and poetic space as her influences describe and to capture the experience of these spaces within her photographic practice. Cailyn aims to take a gentle intentionality into her work as she takes the time to consider the memories and thoughts contained within her own domestic occupation as they slowly appear in print.
