10 Days and Nights - 10 suspended perspex lenses with back-projected video
The Mediums Glasses I & II - Photographs printed onto old pairs of glasses using traditional darkroom techniques
I was inspired to produce a series of works based on nineteenth century occult and pseudo-scientific documentary photography. During the nineteenth century it was believed that camera technology could capture the spirit world and photographs appearing to show ghosts and a range of occult phenomena were often used as "evidence" for a world that lay beyond what we could see.
Laura Marker
Laura Marker - artist
Installation - projection based work with suspended perspex lenses, chain and weights
Installation - projection based work with suspended perspex lenses, chain and weights
Installation - projection based work with suspended perspex lenses, chain and weights
This man is absolutely genuine and absolutely fraudulent (2012) - Installation - projection based work with suspended perspex lenses, chain and weights
This man is absolutely genuine and absolutely fraudulent is part of a recent series of installation works in which I use defocused 35mm slides. Using externally suspended lenses I then re-focus elements of the images in order to suggest that they are manipulated by mysterious external forces.
By suspending lenses on chains they are free to move, ever-so-slightly unlocking the static photographs causing the visible sections of their surfaces to fluctuate. Ideas of the staged, the invented, the real and the unreal are central to this work which brings to mind a scientific, part hypnotically induced illusion; like an occult phenomenon occurring right in front of our eyes.