VCA ART 2021

Jessica Curry

Master of Fine Art

My practice explores how the photographic image is used to construct and inscribe desire. Identifying the image as a slippery site and a leaky surface through which information flows, the project mediates the experience of oscillation between material and the immaterial to rupture the recursive structure of the image. Using lapis lazuli to intersect and mediate the photographic process, the work encourages viewers to consider their experience of images and how their moments of desire are augmented through them.

Jessica Curry, Installation view, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Jessica Curry, Installation view, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Jessica Curry, Tinted Beyond #1, Pigment print on archival paper, acrylic, brass. Source image: Louis Vuitton: Towards A Dream 2021, photographed through lapis lazuli coated lens, 2021.
Jessica Curry, Viewed From An Idyll, Pigment print on archival paper, painted Tasmanian oak, etched glass, lapis lazuli pigment, source image GUCCI: Off The Grid Shoppable campaign 2020, 2021.
Jessica Curry, Do It Yourself, Pigment print on archival paper, painted Tasmanian oak, etched glass, lapis lazuli pigment, source image GUCCI: ABCDEFGUCCI: The New DIY campaign 2018, 2021.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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