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Skye Wagner, 'pink soap, apple stitch, puppy eyes' 2019 (detail). Photographic pigment print.
Exhibition

Skye Wagner: Opacity Shift

Skye Wagner: Opacity Shift
  • When 21 Mar - 18 Apr 2020
  • Where
    UNSW GALLERIES
  • Address
    CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
  • Hours
    TUES TO SAT, 10AM–5PM
  • Phone
    +61 2 8936 0888

Skye Wagner’s photographs explore the circulation and digital malleability of contemporary images.

Made from physical objects and printed imagery, they mix vernacular photographic tropes, commodity goods and cultural fragments. The original images and objects are released from their prescribed function and become part of an unruly network that moves throughout works in the exhibition. Animals, food, body parts and consumer products all form incongruous relations. In this mix, things appear out of control, on the verge of becoming something else, and wanting to escape the confines of the frame.

 

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Skye Wagner blue tarp 2020. Pigment print mounted on alupanel, 39 x 29 cm. Image courtesy: the artist

 
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Skye Wagner rhino glove, elbow joint, corn cakes 2020. Framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 93.5 x 70 cm. Image courtesy: the artist

 
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Skye Wagner guinea pig, sticky notes 2020. Pigment print mounted on alupanel, 41 x 30. Image courtesy: the artist

 
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Skye Wagner blue check, wilted radishes 2020. Pigment print mounted on alupanel, 20 x 15 cm. Image courtesy: the artist

 
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Skye Wagner golden chalice, egg yolk, seashells 2020. Framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 82 x 61 cm. Image courtesy: the artist
 
 

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