Eliza Hutchison: Family Photos
Edited by Justine Ellis and Dan Rule
Perimeter Editions
‘Family Photos’ ruminates on the ability of photography to preserve memories and the knife-edge where it sits; promising both intense connection and the anxiety of loss. Hutchison’s book presents a non-linear series of generations posing unawares, or slumping into everyday repose, distorted images and pages of visual static, pixelated mush, architecture and swatches of sea and sand. The artist takes us on a psychological journey and leaves room for what’s lost in the attempt to chronicle a physical or emotional reality. As Dan Rule’s essay on her practice adds “We make images after all; we don’t simply take them.” This title transmits the strange coupling of conviction and instability in the act of representation.
