Petrina Hicks’ large scale, hyper-real photographs lure viewers through their beauty and perfection. Yet they’re stylised to the point they disconcert the viewer with a tension that lies between seduction and consumption.
While the photographs at first appear to be highly rendered, digital images, Hicks in fact has shot her new images on a large format camera and creates them through analogue printing process. The resulting depth, richness and subtlety of her work adds to the contradictory forces in play in the subject matter, and challenges the dominance of the digital in contemporary photography.
Helen Gory Galerie
12 June to 6 July, 2013
Melbourne
Birdfingers, 2013, c-type print, 90 x 90cm
Courtesy the artist and Helen Gory Galerie
