My work aims to explore the notion of preserving and anchoring memory through an indexical relationship by capturing the traces on the surfaces of my skin. ‘Soft Clock’ is a digital photographic documentation of a series of inverted latex castings from my skin. Corporeality is lost through the degradation of photographic and casting processes, enabling a co-extensive relationship between residual memories and the life of the object.
I am interested in the concept of the infra mince, ‘a liminal space by which both the fact of the object and its representation and imaginings and associations overlay one another.’ (1) This space of release is a charged gap, defined by the properties of the medium, the nature of the representation and the memories carried by it, taking on a life of its own.
Abigayle McLean
List of Works:
Soft Clock
Digital photographs, 131.8 x 123.8 x 1.0 cm
1. Joan Gibbons, Contemporary Art and Memory, Images of Recollection and Remembrance, 2007), 31
