https://laurabivolaru.com Laura Bivolaru Thu, 21 May 2026 17:56:28 +0000 https://laurabivolaru.com en https://laurabivolaru.com/Homepage Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:27:51 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/Homepage <img width="1707" height="1030" width_o="1707" height_o="1030" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e76ddb8eb8aef05fca07cc3ed6d3bbe9121d022ed6a14ca61fdc297840c8099/final-frame.jpg" data-mid="248620430" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e76ddb8eb8aef05fca07cc3ed6d3bbe9121d022ed6a14ca61fdc297840c8099/final-frame.jpg" />&nbsp; LAURA BIVOLARU work ~ writing ~ about https://laurabivolaru.com/The-Country-Is-All-Leaves-and-Flowers Thu, 21 May 2026 17:56:28 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/The-Country-Is-All-Leaves-and-Flowers The Country Is All Leaves and Flowers&nbsp; (2021-ongoing) ‘The Country Is All Leaves and Flowers’ follows the route of a future motorway in Romania, an infrastructure project intended to connect the underdeveloped eastern region of Moldova with Transylvania. In a country with relatively few motorways, the construction of the A8 has become a politically charged symbol of progress, modernity, and alignment with Western Europe. It promises not only economic acceleration, but also access to a different historical temporality — a transition from backwardness and trailing behind to contemporaneity. The project traces the motorway before its materialisation. Working with a view camera, the artist positions herself directly along the projected line of asphalt, consistently pointing the lens westward, away from her hometown, Iasi, and towards the imagined direction of expansion. Each photograph identifies the precise location where the motorway will eventually cut through the terrain. Motivated by the imminent flattening of the undulating landscape, the work proposes that anticipation reshapes perception. These landscapes are viewed with prior knowledge of their inevitable alteration and therefore operate in a suspended temporality — they are documents of a present already marked by its future. The land can remain intact only inside the flat space of the photographs, where the motorway exists as projection, desire, and political promise, but not yet as form. Both infrastructures of circulation, the motorway and the medium of photography reorganise space and time. The first compresses distance and produces temporal acceleration; the latter interprets space through the movements of the view camera and liberates time from its chronological flow. The project brings these two regimes into dialogue and introduces the logic of velocity into the static photograph — in several images, the artist uses a softer focus in order to recreate the sensation of land sliding backwards as the vehicle advances forward at speed. In others, she simply captures the land rehearsing its own transformation, through tyre marks, freshly dug soil, or inexplicably flattened patches in a wheat field, small gestures that, in the context of the series, become premonitory. Ultimately, these landscapes are structured by agricultural cycles and ecological rhythms, whose temporality conflicts with the linear arrow of infrastructural progress. 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I have drawn in front of the gallery a rectangle the size of my family apartment’s balcony in Iaşi, Romania. On your way out, let your body inhabit it for a moment and feel out the tension, the contradictions of the space. Is it more public or private, more inside or outside? Is a chalk line enough to carve a place out of a space or does it need human practice to accomplish that? Semantics of the Shell, The Balcony, Netherlands Chalk drawing, 2.5m x 1.3m <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/683a876958e8fb4dc25a339b1295a3731675337eb5aff42ed1a3dddb4abf680f/Affiliation_01.jpg" data-mid="201027965" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/683a876958e8fb4dc25a339b1295a3731675337eb5aff42ed1a3dddb4abf680f/Affiliation_01.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2871aa1bdf29aaca5cabc030d57a4c456d323ea7e65a61ab4dd8b0a94ec100e6/Affiliation_03.jpg" data-mid="201027967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/2871aa1bdf29aaca5cabc030d57a4c456d323ea7e65a61ab4dd8b0a94ec100e6/Affiliation_03.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a84810dc73c7f265e75314f53af89ccd810ee8e34210e4dc0978571df932eb29/Affiliation_04.jpg" data-mid="201027968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/a84810dc73c7f265e75314f53af89ccd810ee8e34210e4dc0978571df932eb29/Affiliation_04.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe7f84133ee034c22411e3b0b90126274cb075315f456fbd1d9d3ea277efbbd5/Affiliation_02.jpg" data-mid="201027966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/fe7f84133ee034c22411e3b0b90126274cb075315f456fbd1d9d3ea277efbbd5/Affiliation_02.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f80d61a066c9509577dcb04289d5f907d6162abd0221c90e8c210b0da35d481c/Affiliation_05.jpg" data-mid="201027969" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/f80d61a066c9509577dcb04289d5f907d6162abd0221c90e8c210b0da35d481c/Affiliation_05.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99e1053ebb764aa6949bd7d4121d6d4555de2ebf728beccc10eff14a90453c4f/Affiliation_06.jpg" data-mid="201027970" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/99e1053ebb764aa6949bd7d4121d6d4555de2ebf728beccc10eff14a90453c4f/Affiliation_06.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce11482cb2763dc5d98093b6c4777f00ec04a04276ee03a1064d267d81121584/Affiliation_08.jpg" data-mid="201027971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/ce11482cb2763dc5d98093b6c4777f00ec04a04276ee03a1064d267d81121584/Affiliation_08.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/375fcb4a9df0757678813d6ad392214e5ca56c90a0a1891f9481a2c7f1104c4b/Affiliation_09.jpg" data-mid="201027972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/375fcb4a9df0757678813d6ad392214e5ca56c90a0a1891f9481a2c7f1104c4b/Affiliation_09.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d7198808a248bc63697d1737109b1c82849fc3a7a38a6d8cd504077ecff2e90/Affiliation_11.jpg" data-mid="201027973" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/7d7198808a248bc63697d1737109b1c82849fc3a7a38a6d8cd504077ecff2e90/Affiliation_11.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab9bf6a972cc168ef696dfbef6c626ffda029cf1893e659c2a1653404effba32/Affiliation_12.jpg" data-mid="201027974" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/ab9bf6a972cc168ef696dfbef6c626ffda029cf1893e659c2a1653404effba32/Affiliation_12.jpg" /> https://laurabivolaru.com/Up-the-Blue-Stream Sun, 17 Apr 2022 22:56:41 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/Up-the-Blue-Stream Up the Blue Stream (2018-2019) Drawing from Annette Kuhn’s concept of ‘memory work’, this series looks at how family deals with the loss of the father and how grief transforms people and memories. My father lost his father when he was a young boy; his father had been born out-of-wedlock during the WWII, which raised suspicions that he might have been the son of a German or a Russian soldier. After his early passing away, the family kept silent about him and his uncertain ancestry. When I was born, it was almost like he never existed. By visiting the family photographs taken during this life and initiating conversations with my family, I am looking not to uncover the unspoken truths of domestic life, but to reflect on inherited trauma, memory rituals, and the construction of masculinity during the communist era in Romania. <img width="1864" height="1863" width_o="1864" height_o="1863" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd58c79dadec6125144493a8d9d3aedab4b8d1913e32f353abf30688539597bb/Untitled-1-2_clean.jpg" data-mid="139890337" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd58c79dadec6125144493a8d9d3aedab4b8d1913e32f353abf30688539597bb/Untitled-1-2_clean.jpg" /> <img width="1640" height="409" width_o="1640" height_o="409" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fb4917cb11cde41ff5da50ce577aa9edbef34832e6e1c10513b33258261bb3b/Untitled-2-2.jpg" data-mid="139890334" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/445/i/c41dc2a152ce7b7f9844304359e308449c849d3e891a85b6c572b3c8e758e2d8/08.JPG" /> <img width="2480" height="3508" width_o="2480" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb7a31e5eb65704677bf0d31abd480427a5fc9dfca96efa5f08efbe7cf103f1b/grid01.jpg" data-mid="139891709" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb7a31e5eb65704677bf0d31abd480427a5fc9dfca96efa5f08efbe7cf103f1b/grid01.jpg" /> <img width="1960" height="2683" width_o="1960" height_o="2683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/446a80df399688e11214f8537489b2c01d3e16577007b2716555c91aa5f1c0ff/0923_01.jpg" data-mid="139891880" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/446a80df399688e11214f8537489b2c01d3e16577007b2716555c91aa5f1c0ff/0923_01.jpg" /> https://laurabivolaru.com/Is-This-How-You-Like-History Sat, 13 Aug 2022 21:24:33 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/Is-This-How-You-Like-History Is This How You Like History? (2022) In ‘Is This How You Like History?’ (2022), the artist attempts to remove from a Romanian history textbook the marks made over the years by students and the artist’s teacher. Pencil, highlighter and pen marks are erased, painted over with correction fluid or removed with a cutter knife. In addition to scanned pages of the textbook, the work incorporates a moving image piece recorded during the four-hour long process of cleaning. Following the idea that history is not a series of events, but rather the storied versions of them being passed down through the written word, the artist questions the pedagogy of history and the separation between history and collective memory. If the marks’ original purpose is to select the information to be learnt and remembered in the future, does removing them entail a wish to forget, to challenge authority or to imagine a history of history? Orbits, Seen Fifteen Gallery, 2022 Copy of deconstructed history textbook (Bucharest, 2010), moving image 36’8” <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c826b325960878f2678dc89a3302df866e620122499ab7d0a05d05126ddf9852/03.jpg" data-mid="150325733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c826b325960878f2678dc89a3302df866e620122499ab7d0a05d05126ddf9852/03.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/506e217523b1d7341a20ba01a25760c75c460509659be46a37009969603627f1/01_resize.jpg" data-mid="150325912" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/506e217523b1d7341a20ba01a25760c75c460509659be46a37009969603627f1/01_resize.jpg" /> <img width="2352" height="1568" width_o="2352" height_o="1568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70a62763cefa12b4c36df525cc4cee40ba672b48a4bf3bce0f623be14b5842ff/04.jpg" data-mid="150325734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70a62763cefa12b4c36df525cc4cee40ba672b48a4bf3bce0f623be14b5842ff/04.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dd79e4a9ede159c9a35768709c274a5f17598dde014c765e96ef399009366e3/02_resize.jpg" data-mid="150325914" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dd79e4a9ede159c9a35768709c274a5f17598dde014c765e96ef399009366e3/02_resize.jpg" /> <img width="3085" height="3905" width_o="3085" height_o="3905" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22dfb02d4b6002cd91c84ce916e4bb167d46e3a0be6145b1b5d1db305799030e/img109crop.jpg" data-mid="150326491" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22dfb02d4b6002cd91c84ce916e4bb167d46e3a0be6145b1b5d1db305799030e/img109crop.jpg" /> <img width="3105" height="3914" width_o="3105" height_o="3914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ded61601e0945ef1339fb09bd9e309da8ee6fd5af24313c3cb0e98351ec6c06/img129crop.jpg" data-mid="150326646" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ded61601e0945ef1339fb09bd9e309da8ee6fd5af24313c3cb0e98351ec6c06/img129crop.jpg" /> <img width="3102" height="3903" width_o="3102" height_o="3903" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df993d9a7275ffffe7969d0f0a959cd100d41830d68afc292f7894bdf2c971a8/img227crop.jpg" data-mid="150327490" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df993d9a7275ffffe7969d0f0a959cd100d41830d68afc292f7894bdf2c971a8/img227crop.jpg" /> https://laurabivolaru.com/Thank-You-Goodbye-and-Good-Riddance Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:56:34 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/Thank-You-Goodbye-and-Good-Riddance Thank you, Goodbye, and Good Riddance (2020) The image on the left was taken in Dover on the 31st of October 2019, on the second Brexit deadline, after having been delayed from the originally planned date of the 29th of March. After Article 50 was extended for a second time, the image on the right was taken on January 31st 2020, the official Brexit date, close to the border between Romania and Moldova, the latter not a member state of the European Union. The first photograph is looking East, while the second is looking West. Both images are looking at the continental European Union in-between them and, in a way, at each other. The pair explores whether representing history in the making is truly possible - if history is the science of what has already been experienced, it fundamentally deals with the past. However, can photography have an intuition of relevant times and spaces? The photographs only hint at a heterogenous mass of land and the masses of people inhabiting it, whose destinies are entangled together.‘Thank you, goodbye, and good riddance!’ was the farewell message of Irena Andrassy, Croatian ambassador to the EU, to the UK in the aftermath of Brexit. It is believed ‘good riddance’ was a mistranslation of ‘good luck’. <img width="2048" height="1676" width_o="2048" height_o="1676" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/929ea75ab68d07b90166919190adf2a5d626ee1ea647c4c3e39bef0a67e67c4b/Thank-you--Goodye--and-Good-Riddance-02_resize.jpg" data-mid="139886905" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/929ea75ab68d07b90166919190adf2a5d626ee1ea647c4c3e39bef0a67e67c4b/Thank-you--Goodye--and-Good-Riddance-02_resize.jpg" /> https://laurabivolaru.com/A-Death Sun, 20 Oct 2019 17:27:26 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/A-Death A Death (2019) You are a file, compressed as much as possible, flat like the notebook in the scanner. Eyes look at you, but do they see you all at once or read you from left to right or from top to bottom, like the scanner’s tongue, or they go round in circles trying to find a focal point? And why should there be any distance between the eyes and you when there was none between the notebook and the glass, and what is even the distance between it and the corresponding pixels? Is it a cable’s length or a line of zeroes and ones or the distance between a life and a death? Text created at ‘We Make the Yolk Photography’ workshop by Victoria Doyle for ‘Statement of Being’ exhibition, August 2019 A2 C-Type print nailed to the wall <img width="2048" height="1453" width_o="2048" height_o="1453" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f566d76e5d4d02212f4f04c16ce14705b20e21537235553db962afd9ca2fd5bd/ADeath_resize.jpg" data-mid="53105973" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f566d76e5d4d02212f4f04c16ce14705b20e21537235553db962afd9ca2fd5bd/ADeath_resize.jpg" /> https://laurabivolaru.com/A-Circle Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:06:48 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/A-Circle A Circle (2019/2025) In the Circle of Touch, fragments of family archives are interspersed with pieces of propaganda imagery from the Photographic Archive of Romanian Communism. Following the idea that the self is created through touch, the questions of who touches whom and how children are touched by adults become paramount in understanding the relationship between the individual and the collective, as well as the power hierarchies within both family and society at large.&nbsp; In the Space Between Words, Copeland Gallery, 2025 Eight giclée prints, magnets <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23d622ef0c4f9286e387bbccd1f7afab74e9a023ef1342e67854d352e74eccf8/01.jpg" data-mid="231707950" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23d622ef0c4f9286e387bbccd1f7afab74e9a023ef1342e67854d352e74eccf8/01.jpg" /> <img width="3189" height="2663" width_o="3189" height_o="2663" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31b753966fda7752966d86b3d65e907f46b03c27f6e0320d5f01d6416f6dcb99/A-Circle.jpg" data-mid="139886942" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31b753966fda7752966d86b3d65e907f46b03c27f6e0320d5f01d6416f6dcb99/A-Circle.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fad70b1d730332a389928283efbc20500d734638c6b9f72ab0ceea5d46a167f/02.jpg" data-mid="231707951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4fad70b1d730332a389928283efbc20500d734638c6b9f72ab0ceea5d46a167f/02.jpg" /> https://laurabivolaru.com/A-System Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:10:24 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/A-System A System (of Measuring Time) (2019) On film, photographs are separated by tiny spaces of unexposed surface. Their dimension seemingly standardised, they represent in fact various slices of time, from seconds to years. These durations appear as black lines on the photographic contact sheet, becoming essential signs in the photographic language. They are inherent to the mechanism and, by themselves, irrelevant to the human perception of time. Part of the Graduation Show at the Royal College of Art, London, June 2019 16”x20” C-Type print, framed, edition of 5 + 1 AP&nbsp; <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4eb59ef89a97b21e7de04370a1662499778f61f343d10b9e876e89b7b7ea31f6/001002_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" data-mid="139882173" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/4eb59ef89a97b21e7de04370a1662499778f61f343d10b9e876e89b7b7ea31f6/001002_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b2a7b7cebd8784738c7d1a792e30e50ce2a5537ee7bf383e68a9c518dd5e907/002003_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" data-mid="139882174" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/6b2a7b7cebd8784738c7d1a792e30e50ce2a5537ee7bf383e68a9c518dd5e907/002003_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2403cdc80229297a547f66b038cc3b7e85063122a261abda61d64072efdce77b/003004_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" data-mid="139882175" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/2403cdc80229297a547f66b038cc3b7e85063122a261abda61d64072efdce77b/003004_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38f168cb9a50bbdaec70154564d5201bbceeabc01b5c922c5da4a04b048e4d67/005006_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" data-mid="139882176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/38f168cb9a50bbdaec70154564d5201bbceeabc01b5c922c5da4a04b048e4d67/005006_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3b98c15156c6e000e7cb2cc1037c090988a3694d7e4e4bb4fa5a7ca7be8f133/007008_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" data-mid="139882178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/e3b98c15156c6e000e7cb2cc1037c090988a3694d7e4e4bb4fa5a7ca7be8f133/007008_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/333ba16b0bfe9dc9f2f43d504bc3c0106c85c391f94089444fa290b4ad32d201/009010_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" data-mid="139882179" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/333ba16b0bfe9dc9f2f43d504bc3c0106c85c391f94089444fa290b4ad32d201/009010_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93d9d9143505c0507e53861e2ed1309768bd11fe9410183bbad5f81d19386196/011012_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" data-mid="139882180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/93d9d9143505c0507e53861e2ed1309768bd11fe9410183bbad5f81d19386196/011012_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" /> <img width="810" height="1080" width_o="810" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5da0f9888973a197ba1dd003621eb7c7204cf487b511148d23bf98095be96c1d/013014_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" data-mid="139882181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/5da0f9888973a197ba1dd003621eb7c7204cf487b511148d23bf98095be96c1d/013014_12x16_actualsize_resize.jpg" /> <img width="481" height="720" width_o="481" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca4f836ad107f9f77bf2c97733aea2f6d727f93eeacad6cd016f41e5e64b4d25/02_resize_resize.jpg" data-mid="54753772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/481/i/ca4f836ad107f9f77bf2c97733aea2f6d727f93eeacad6cd016f41e5e64b4d25/02_resize_resize.jpg" /> https://laurabivolaru.com/The-Unfulfilling Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:54:00 +0000 Laura Bivolaru https://laurabivolaru.com/The-Unfulfilling The Unfulfilling (2019) By leaving a gap between photographs, the camera mechanism denies the potential of this small piece to become image, like the spaces to its right and left. The lightbox materialises the idea of being wasted, sacrificed. In photography, light activates the image, but here it uncovers a blank space, a lack.&nbsp; Part of the Graduation Show at the Royal College of Art, London, June 2019; Statement of Being, Deptford does Art, August 2019 85cm x 60cm lightbox with piece of 35mm film <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/631179b1e5bd3d9d56fc7d48164616fd08dc885dc953f62dd736019fdd8b223a/05.jpg" data-mid="53134622" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/631179b1e5bd3d9d56fc7d48164616fd08dc885dc953f62dd736019fdd8b223a/05.jpg" /> <img width="721" height="1080" width_o="721" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16b7533d6c0b72eaa4c20f28bc6d71441e885a64fca37be6cc90bce6cef1e13a/03_resize.jpg" data-mid="53134669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/721/i/16b7533d6c0b72eaa4c20f28bc6d71441e885a64fca37be6cc90bce6cef1e13a/03_resize.jpg" />