Zoe Leonard：Observation Point at CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE

American artist Zoe Leonard harnesses a natural phenomenon to think about ways of looking, recording and experiencing time and space.  Across all the galleries this major exhibition engages 3 distinct forms of photography and transforms one of the spaces into a camera obscura.  Daylight filters in through a lens, projecting an image of the world outside onto the floor, walls and ceiling.  This work invites comparisons with film and video as the light source changes throughout the day, giving rise to a continually shifting, immersive and cinematic event.

Another part of the exhibition is a series of photographs taken directly of the sun, challenging the possibilities of photographic representation.  An installation of found postcards of Niagara Fall continues Leonard's practice of attending to the world around her as a source of material, reframing or representing already existing images so as to refresh our own act of looking.  Together, the works ask us to question photographic seeing and how we relate to the mediated image.

Like the work of Leonard, my recent project is exploring the interesting and challenging way of looking, but rather than recording the past time, I try to add another medium - oil painting to intrude the photography, thus making original photographs produce different possibilities of meaning by viewers' curiosity.

http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=101276