Philomene Pirecki
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Selected Work
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Desire as a Form of Energy
Reflecting
Image Persistence
Time Feels
its ok, we're all heading the same way


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Reflecting
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The photographic series 'Reflecting' uses the photograph as both a container for embedded images taken in the past, as well as being active in the present through its reflective surface, which mirrors the surroundings and the viewer. Each time the work is exhibited I re-photograph the most recent version in my studio to produce a new generation of the work. This reproduction is in turn photographed during the exhibition to produce the next generation, and on the occasion of another exhibition this process continues. As each new generation of the image is formed, parts of previous images unpredictably persist over time or are supplanted by new ones. I'm interested in this as a visual analogue with the complex experience of memory and time passing, what remains or disappears. They also address how preceding work supports another in some way, as a generative material both conceptually and materially. Each photograph is a discrete work that records aspects of the place and time it was made in and is simultaneously part of a broader evolving series that will unfold over my lifetime.

Reflecting White (4th Generation)
2013
colour c-type
50.8 x 40.6 cm


Reflecting White (10th Generation)
2014
colour c-type
50.8 x 40.6 cm


Reflecting White (12th Generation)
2014
colour c-type
50.8 x 40.6 cm


Installation view during group exhibition 'Crab Walk' at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland Oct 2015-Feb 2016
Reflecting 5 (generations 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
2013 - 2015
colour c-type
50.8 x 40.6 cm each

behind the photographs: reproductions as posters on matt paper, destroyed at the end of the exhibition, of Reflecting 5 (1st Generation), 2008 and Reflecting 5 (2nd Generation), 2013 (I no longer own either of the original works)


Reflecting 1 (2nd Generation)
2011
colour c-type
50.8 x 40.6 cm


Reflecting 1 (12th Generation)
2014
colour c-type
50.8 x 40.6 cm