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VCA Art 2024

Laura Dubsky

Rummaging through archives, physical and virtual, personal and public, I am searching for elusive puzzle pieces to link the synapses of visual memory.

These analogue mementos present themselves as the ideal medium to examine notions of time itself, specifically a Western linear perception. Photography by its nature disrupts successive time. As a chronological inscription, analogue imagery is tethered to its time of creation.

Digital technologies uncouple photographic materials from time and imbue them with plasticity, while creating innumerable avenues for access and dissemination.

Standing astride analogue and digital technologies, these works exist inside this space of transfiguration. They invite interrogation into the paradoxes inherent in photography and its relationship to time and memory.

Laura Dubsky, Installation View. Image Courtesy of University of Melbourne.

Laura Dubsky, Fracture, single channel video, 9min 18sec, 2022. Documentation by Imogen Ellis

Laura Dubsky, Vesuvius, inket prints, single channel video, vintage slide viewer, 2024. Documentation by Matto Lucas

Laura Dubsky, Dark Respiration, single channel video on custom screen, 190cm x 200cm, 2024. Documentation by Natalie H. Reed

Laura Dubsky, Dark Respiration, single channel video on custom screen, 190cm x 200cm, 2024. Documentation by Natalie H. Reed

Laura Dubsky, Temporal Lens, glass slides, vintage slide viewers on custom stand, 2022. Photo courtesy of the Artist

Laura Dubsky, Vestibule, inkjet prints, 2022-Ongoing. Documentation by Imogen Ellis

Master of Contemporary Art
Victorian College of the Arts
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne
PRV12150 / CRICOS: 00116K