Unfinished Business. Stories from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities. Audio descriptions of the images. These audio descriptions were prepared by Imogen Young and Linda Arnold from Insightful with input by Nick Godley and Dieter Knierim.
Lenticular print
The exhibition consists of 3D lenticular backlit photographic portraits of the participants. The lenticular print creates a sense of depth and three dimensionality to the photographs. There are no longer flat images but moving ones and the human subjects within them move with you and cause you to move as you shift around in the viewing space, trying to find the ideal viewing position. The lenticular effect generates illusory dimensions, mirages of depth by directing the eye in one direction or coaxing it to another.
Viewed from alternating directions, a different shape, mood and purpose of image can present itself as the eye tries to focus on what is different in each glimpse. As we increase and decrease our distance from the image, varying aspects reveal themselves and the further away we get, the more resolved the image seems to be. Up close, the effect can be very disorienting.
Light and shade dance illusively, the essence of the image evading the grip of our gaze. This varies according to the composition, the light, the shade, the shape, the subject and setting contained within it, as well as the amount of available light in the environment. The lenticular affords and creates resonant, dynamic appearances of reality in all the images, emphasising the fact that we are not in control of the content nor of the realities it represents. In these portraits ultimately the subject of each work is in command.