becoming / belonging
The sun had risen higher and was driving back the shadows of the trees across the grass where we stood, and the water was likewise advancing, and so we were held between them, in one of those processes of almost imperceptible change.
Rachel Cusk - second place
Photography in the early days was a pastime for the wealthy. Landscape photography was a medium of self expression that favored aesthetic suggestion over the highly articulated facsimile.
Some 183 years later landscape photography has been appropriated for advertising, political and cultural identity and as backdrop for performativ identity in social media, in the process churning out ever selfsame narratives.
Hence, today’s prevalent pictorial syntax shapes a collective dream that informs our understanding of ourselves in relation to our surroundings.
‘Becoming | Belonging’ is interested in the gaps in this dream: awakening moments - or an intermission of sorts - the visual equivalent of a break in a play or performance.
It is the moment when we leave the simulation and encounter the possibility of change.
