Built Photography is a new exhibition settee open at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) that brings together 16 artists delving into the physicality of photography. While photography is often defined by its flatness, why are artists pushing beyond this, constructing photographic objects?
Built photography sparks a dialogue about photography’s materiality, its surface, form, and objectness, challenging the flatness of the photographic plane. Through processes of ‘inflation,’ photographs disrupt their two-dimensional nature, complicating the spatial relationship between image content and physical form.
A built photograph evolves into a three-dimensional proposition, subject to manipulation and exploration. It’s an investigation: how can we extend the traditional understanding of a photograph and what occurs when we acknowledge the materiality of its creation and display?
Curated by artists Kiron Robinson and Izabela Pluta, with support from MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea, the exhibition showcases both newly commissioned and loaned works, capturing the essence of photography’s surface and flatness while simultaneously defying it.
You can see Built Photography at MAPh, 860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill from 8 June to 25 August.
