Janet Laurence | Fabled

For Fabled, Janet Laurence has developed a suite of photographs and wall-based constructions that continue her devotion to the vulnerable in the natural world.

Laurence has taken imagery from the Tarkine, an old growth forest in Tasmania, and constructed a multi-panel work. A green void is presented to us, depicting a verdant site now under threat, having recently been reopened for deforestation and mining.

In a separate gallery images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra, are captured unaware, as a camera triggered by their movement shows them in their natural state. Laurence draws out the inherent tension between these two worlds, both of which are in a state of flux and danger.

Poised as if before the fall, these works explore the photographic moment, their subjects captured momentarily in time. They exist both as archive, and as a living index for the wilderness, that fabled, fragile and ghostly space that we always wish to be there, but so often overlook.

Janet Laurence's new commission After Eden is currently on exhibtion at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) until 19 May 2012.
http://www.sherman-scaf.org.au/exhibitions