Georgina Mascolo
Georgina Mascolo graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2009 and works primarily with photography, using its different formats and applications to convey more conceptual ideas. She often constructs installations that combine images with texts and found objects in order to create museum-like environments and archival narratives. The work questions our faith in photographic images as a document or artefact of proof, while raising the possibility of new beliefs; in a world where everything is explained by photographs, these images are created with the potential to unexplain. Many of Mascolo’s ideas revolve around themes of science, art and mystery, and another central concern is that of transformation; whether real transformations such as adolescence, or something more magical.
Fig. 60, 61, 62 (Phenomenon Treatise I : Levitation)
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Photography
32cm x 51cm
3 x original polaroids in 1 frame
Dimensions are when framed
Suggested to be found photographs from a lost archive discovered by the artist, the use of Polaroid lends the images an authenticity unfamiliar in the age of ubiquitous digital manipulation, and enhances their status as proof. Formal aesthetics gives the pictures a surreal beauty and clinical feel that conjure the strange and otherworldly setting of the scientific laboratory, invocative of fear and curiosity in equal measure. The text that accompanies this series is shown in the fourth image.
£1,000
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