Monochrome prints and wearables on paper and fabric on metal structures
shot (two tones) with a paintball gun (collaboration with GBH)
Paintball Field {Blue & Yellow]
bookwork printed with a Monochrome Océ Laser on Xerox Bond paper
shot with paintball gun (two tones) by GBH
118.9 x 84.1 cm each folio, installed on metal table with chipboard top
Monochrome xerox prints on paper and fabric
shot (two tones) with a paintball gun (collaboration with GBH)
with props, installed on metal, foam and and wood structures
Installation views of the exhibition PAINTBALL FIELD (3,06 billion cycles per second)
Commissioned by Barreiro Photography Month at AMAC
Red Gallery Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita 1 Nov 2018 – 10 Feb 2019
Monochrome Laser prints on pleated paper
Installation views of exhibition Grange Studios 2016
Newspaperwork
24 pages, b&w digital print, newsprint paper, 35 x 50 cm
Photozine
available in 2 sizes 20 x 28.5 cm (A4 page size) / 14x 20 cm (A5 page size)
laser printed black & white on canon ivory paper 80gsm
28 pages, hand-bound, 3-hole pamphlet stitch
edition of 100, released 2018, msdm publications
Paintball Field was made during a residency in the ‘schist’ mountain villages of Portugal. The area has become depopulated and is now being developed as a destination for tourists. The title of the work refers to a local recreation area where visiting families come with their children to play war games using guns firing balls of paint. The photographs conjure up a hunting scene in which a female figure wearing a cork mask – resembling those that were used by the original villagers during carnival – is being pursued.
More than a simple ironic take on violence and war, the work draws on ethnographic connotations, evoking a dramatic encounter between the rural traditions of the past and present-day cultural practices.
(3.06 billion cycles per second is the clock speed of the computer used to create the photoworks, expressed in gigahertz: 3.06 GHz. The computer is only one of the mediating elements in this practice, connected to capturing, editing, printing and publishing devices. An underlying trauma is the feeling of loss: emotional, social and technological. Loss of loved ones, lived spaces and computing power)