Impossible Island draws on forty years of recollections and observations by Franco-Haitian photographer Henry Roy, presenting 113 images that channel the many influences that have shaped his artistic journey, from being exiled from his homeland to his love of literature and passion for New Wave French cinema.
Impossible Island evokes what Roy describes as a “quest for a metaphorical island, an imaginary refuge where one can escape the brutality of the world. It presents a bittersweet universe where water and sunlight dominate, symbols of both life and death.”
Henry Roy, Man sleeping, Yaounde, Cameroon, 2002, inkjet print on Bartya paper, 117 × 81cm. With kind permission of the artist / © Henry Roy. Courtesy Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of Western Australia
30 November 2024 to 18 May 2025
Perth
