Susan Hockaday Exhibition
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
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VESSELS, an exhibition of new Photographs and Photograms, portrays a graveyard of rusted ships off the shore of Staten Island. In this series Hockaday has recorded the collapsing and decomposing forms of sunken ships that have been abraded by the tide and weather. The artist has photographed them from above in a small airplane and while exploring among them in a motorboat. Through both processes Hockaday has been able to combine intimate detailed images along with more scenic, panoramic views. The images reveal traces of history while bringing up elements of industrial power, the human hand, and the relentless strength of nature.
Each photograph is accompanied by a photogram made from ubiquitous scraps of contemporary life. They provide a dark counterpoint to the aged vessels; a message from our own time and culture.
The second group of photographs, TURNING ON NATURE, depicts further interactions between man and the natural world. These pictures were taken on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and reveal the dense mixture of patterns and layers in that costal landscape. The images reveal the effects of uncontrolled human activity in a remote area where over-fishing, pollution, graffiti and deforestation is apparent. Hockaday conveys this presence by adding a variety of marks (paint, ink, mixed-media) to the finished photographs, providing them with a layer of tension and ambiguity.
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Schedule
from May 20, 2008 to June 14, 2008