Bethany Murray
Bethany Murray’s practice is situated around the performative body and photography. Her primary site for research uses reconstructions of memory in relation to place. She uses written performative texts as the starting point for much of her staged photographs. The photographs are filmic in their aesthetic, sometimes sequenced, and use her as the central performer although other actors and passers-by are also involved. By placing herself in this way and using ideas of role-play she moves between the boundaries of photographer and performer, questioning where the story lies, and re-working the gaze. The work questions whose stories are portrayed, how memory itself can be transitory and engages the viewer in un-resolvable narratives.
From Avoided Spaces: Black and White Polaroids (white shirts)
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Photography
10.5cm x 14cm
Black and white polaroid
Photography, Performance, Cinematic, Film
The black and white Polaroids reference throwaway tests of film that stage and echo the idea of the distillation of memory.
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