This arresting new series of photographs stems from Suzanne Mooney’s interest in the potential sculptural qualities of the medium. Within her carefully composed images, an intense study of line, form and scale deliberately unsettles our perception of architectural and pictorial space.

Display devices, specifically those employed in the presentation of consumable goods, fascinate Mooney and often appear within her photographs. These empty structures become the focus and subject of the work, questioning conventional notions of function, commodity and value exchange. Other work transposes found imagery, for example of precious stones embedded in rocks, to create a lexicon of images and objects that move between the artificial and the organic.

Mooney utilises various printing techniques and paper types to harness a tension between an object and its representation. The artist only employs in-camera techniques, rather than digital manipulation, to reinforce the photograph’s status as an enigmatic document of reality.

Suzanne Mooney

(1976) was born in Ireland, graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005, and currently lives and works in Bristol where she has held a studio at Spike Island since 2008. Solo exhibitions include Equilateral Coercion at The Old Police Station, London (2011) and group exhibitions Rotate: The Potential for Windows and Scale at Contemporary Art Society, London (2011), Human/Nature at Farmleigh House Gallery, Dublin (2011), and with Moody Gallery at Trajector Art Fair, Brussels (2010).

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