Plinth Piece, Kouros study Plinth Piece, animalia study Plinth Piece, Nike victory study Plinth Piece, shadow study Plinth Piece, study for reclining nude Plinth Piece, study for the water carrier Plinth Piece, study for woman bitten by a snake Plinth Piece, study for Zeus (or possibly Poseidon)

Fahd, CR

Plinth Piece, Kouros study Plinth Piece, animalia study Plinth Piece, Nike victory study Plinth Piece, shadow study Plinth Piece, study for reclining nude Plinth Piece, study for the water carrier Plinth Piece, study for woman bitten by a snake Plinth Piece, study for Zeus (or possibly Poseidon)

Fahd, CR

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Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: Plinth Piece

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dc.contributor.author	Fahd, CR https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-1535	en_US
dc.date	2014-04-02	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Plinth Piece	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781921661419	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/116016
dc.description.abstract	A series of eight implausible photographic self-portraits of the body covered in children’s Play Dough.	en_US
dc.format	Photography	en_US
dc.publisher	Galerie Pompom	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Plinth Piece	en_US
dc.title	Plinth Piece, Kouros study Plinth Piece, animalia study Plinth Piece, Nike victory study Plinth Piece, shadow study Plinth Piece, study for reclining nude Plinth Piece, study for the water carrier Plinth Piece, study for woman bitten by a snake Plinth Piece, study for Zeus (or possibly Poseidon)	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Galerie Pompom	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.finish-date	2014-04-27	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Galerie Pompom	en_US
pubs.start-date	2014-04-02	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	The staged photographs in “Plinth Piece” arise from the field of photographic self-portraiture. Central to this research is the history and role of the ‘body’ in photo-documentation, specifically the nexus between photography and sculpture and the role photography has played in transforming the body into sculpture. Traditionally, photographic documentation played a ‘straight-forward’ ‘indexical’ role in picturing the body. However, the Surrealist photographers of the 30s and 40s understood how to manipulate the indexical nature of photography by exploiting its relationship to the real to create images of the body that were both ‘real’ and ‘unreal’. Plinth Piece undertook a hybrid digital approach to transforming the body into sculpture. By developing the Surrealist’s analogue methodologies through a combination of digital and analogue means I was able to exploit what theorist Rosalind Krauss called ‘the special relationship that photography has with the real’. This research provided a unique photographic method for transforming the pictured body into a series of ‘believable’ Play-Doh sculptures that recall classical sculptures throughout history. This research was exhibited in a solo exhibition at the commercial venue, Galerie Pompom in Sydney. A work from this series was acquired from Galerie Pompom by the Art Gallery of NSW. It was subsequently in the curated show “New Matter” at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Another work from the series was selected as a finalist in the Monash Gallery of Art Bowness Prize. Three works from the series were curated into “Unveiled” at Gallerysmith in Melbourne. The entire series was exhibited in another solo exhibition at Diane Tanzer + THIS IS NO FANTASY. Price Waterhouse Cooper acquired four works for their corporate collection at Barangaroo. Three works are in the Artbank collection, an Australian Government initiative.	en_US

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A series of eight implausible photographic self-portraits of the body covered in children’s Play Dough.

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