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
Transmission Lenses - Installation of Photographic Prints onto Glass Magnifying Lenses Using Traditional Darkroom Techniques
An imperceptible world is beginning to collide with our own.
Lenses have a long held dual associations; scientific furtherment, wonder and discovery set aside divination, falsity, illusion and frivolous entertainments.
Our relationship to optical lenses are associated with the concept of portals, and the possibility of uncovering events and phenomena that lie just beyond human perception. Transmission I-III incorporates concepts relating to pseudo-scientific frameworks, historical documentation of the occult and the pseudo/scientific equipment used to investigate these phenomena.
All works © Laura Marker