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Surrender (Collision), 1998

Type C photograph

Surrender (Collision).

In Surrender (Collision), Douglas uses photograms to capture silhouettes in the darkroom, offering a meditation on the physical and spiritual essence of the human form. This work explores ephemeral impressions, echoing the transient presence of bodies within the natural world.

“These photograms show a human figure (presumably male) either in relationship to another figure or on their own. The shadowy quality of the photogram conveys a sense of the body both as a physical and spiritual entity and suggests how this view of the self can be changing and relative. As Douglas has written of her work: 'I am interested in colliding realms of memory and the imaginary, in titling the axis of meaning. My work contains things that are in our field of vision if we choose to seek them out.”

- Isobel Crombie, 2003

Selected Exhibition History

2018

Antipodean Emanations: Cameraless Photographs from Australia and New Zealand, Monash Gallery of Art (MGA), Melbourne, Australia

2016

Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph, Govett-Brewster, Plymouth, New Zealand

Light Works, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (curated by Dr. Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria).

2014

Sun to Sun, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

2004

Vanishing Point, HUG Gallery for International Contemporary Art (now Vassie Gallery), Amsterdam, Holland.

2003

First Impressions, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (curated by Dr. Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria).