Paul Litherland

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Xochimilco Password: Paul Litherland; 2005; color photograph; dimensions?; | Part of the artwork/series Art Photography

Art photography is a series of photographs in which a painting by the artist is photographed in relationship to a background. The initial inspiration for this series came from looking at photos of artworks that showed more than they intended to show (i.e. ‘bad’ photos of art). I’m interested in developing a visual metaphor, I guess my visual metaphor, for how the conscious surfaces from the unconscious. The paintings and their backgrounds can symbolize either place, and I am trying to create interesting or poetic tensions between references to imaginary and real space. ‘Real’ insofar as photographic space is real… I photograph artworks professionally for a living. Francis Alys, Sign Painting Project 1993-1997, is a reference for this work.

Notes: Exhibited in Arte Photgraphico, Galeriea del Fonca, Mexico City, 2006.

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