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Cathy Tuato'o Ross
'Objects and Reasons'

Photospace Gallery,
5th December 2014 - 20th January 2015
Note: gallery closed 24th Dec-4th Jan, inclusive
Artist's statement
When I was at primary school I won a $10 book token. I bought a book called The Shell, which I still own. It has perfectly focused, glossy, full-page colour photographs barely interrupted by discreet plate numbers. If you flick to the back and locate the plate number, you’ll find outline diagrams and texts. I quickly learned that the photograph was the illustration, while the drawings and texts were the source of real information. The drawn outline renders the represented object as an archetype, an "icon" to the photograph's "index", while the text tells you what you are looking at. In Objects and Reasons I have conflated the two modes of reproduction and representation, but have found the attempt to increase clarity through the reduction of information is fated (like most best-of-both-worlds scenarios).

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'Memoire and school girl' from 'Objects and Reasons' exhibition by Cathy Tuato'o Ross, Photospace Gallery Wellington New Zealand 2014
Memoire and school girl
'Regular object, front' from 'Objects and Reasons' exhibition by Cathy Tuato'o Ross, Photospace Gallery Wellington New Zealand 2014
Regular object, front
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