Categories: Exhibitions
      Date: Feb 22, 2010
     Title: 28 February - 28 March: 'Fugue (Dear Darkness)' by Patricia Casey (NSW)

Sydney-based artist Patricia Casey creates dark and haunting images via a process developed through an emotive response to photographic portraits and family history.

Casey prints a photographic portrait, which is then submerged in water, frozen, and re-photographed through textured ice. The methodology for this process is a symptom known as Echolalia, which is an involuntary reflex echoing a spoken word or phrase said by another person. Responding to this symptom through photography reinforces the aspect of the echo, since a portrait is only a representation, or more poetically an echo of someone. Family stories and histories are passed on to relatives through the retelling of knowledge and passing down of photographs, Casey’s exploration demonstrates this by acting not only as a memento mori, but also as a reference to Echolalia itself.