Helen Sear

Twice...Once (series), 2000

Twice..Once a series of "double" portraits using two separate negatives of the same person at two different moments, exploring the limitations of the conventional photographic portrait and attempting to visualise an interior view.

In Art Monthly, May 98, Valerie Reardon states:

"Sear draws on Freud's notion of the unheimlich: the uncanny sense that what is secret and hidden is also somehow ghastly. Lacan reworked this notion and came up with the word extemit, a blurring of the line between interiority and exteriority which points to neither but is located where they coincide and become threatening. This refers to an ongoing body of double portraits Twice...Once, exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Zelda Cheatle gallery London in November 2000 and Hayward Gallery 2004."

99cm x 91.5cm

Archval silver print

£2000

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