Untitled Installation
Installation / Photographic Work
Georgia State University, United States

Untitled Installation explores what it means to be seen, using reflection and photography to place the body in a space that is constantly shifting. The work never settles into a single view, instead breaking the image apart and piecing it back together through the act of looking. In doing so, it confronts the viewer’s immediate impulse to assign gender to a body, even when that body exists outside of binary definitions.

It brings together square-cut reflective glass and fragments from found picture frames, bonded with aluminum to create a surface that catches and distorts reflection. Within this fractured structure are nine wet plate collodion self-portraits of the artist’s body from the waist down, photographed using a 1965 Crown Graflex camera.

The images feel both clear and unstable at the same time. As reflection and photography overlap, they interrupt each other, so the viewer is confronted with both their own reflection and the artist’s body at once. This layered encounter pushes up against the impulse to immediately define or gender the body based only on anatomy, exposing how those assumptions are formed.

In this way, Untitled Installation treats visibility as something constructed and constantly in flux. The body is present, but never fully available, always filtered through reflection, distortion, and interruption.

Photography by Getsay.