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Preserving: item 744

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Preserving: item 744, conveys my frustrations and fears for the earth’s environment. Through exploring motivations and methods of preservation, I am examining our will, ability, and power, to preserve in the Anthropocene. Will it be enough?

 

‘Preserving: item 744’ shows a photograph suspended in water within a jar on a stainless steel surface. Darkness surrounds the jar, but light penetrates through the glass onto the scene of the bush. Like the environment it depicts, the photograph is isolated, fragile, damaged, and collapsing. It is already a historical artefact – a moment in time, preserved. The jar is full of water: so vital to life, so capable of destruction.

The vintage domestic jar, a universal tool used for preserving food, serves as a reminder of our ability, across time and cultural differences, to do what needs to be done.

Winner: Grand Prize,  Hahnemühle Summer Salon, 2023
Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Victoria.

Finalist:  2023 William and Winifred Bowness Prize, Museum of Australian Photography's annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia.

Finalist: 2024 Environmental Art & Design Award, Manly Art Gallery & Museum.

Also featured in
The Guardian Australia.

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© Genevieve Ginty 2024

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Garigal, Guringai, Dharug and Darkinjung Country, the land where I work, live and play. I acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and recognise their continuing connection to land, sea, culture and community.

I pay my respects to Elders past and present.

 This beautiful land that I love and protect was, and always will be Aboriginal Land.

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