Philip George: Fog Garden

‘Fog Garden’ invites viewers into a space where beauty also carries the dark underbelly of threat. The experience of the images George has created for his latest exhibition with BREENSPACE, Sydney, is one of slow discovery.

Close-up photographs of roses combine the decorative tradition of ‘Arabesque’ – a term ascribed to both 9th Century Islamic and European Renaissance decorative art – with the contours of military planes superimposed onto the rose’s petals. The rose is a loaded symbol, associated as it is with carnal desire, martyrdom, and remembrance. In these works, the roses are specters to be looked into or through, rather than being plainly observed, revealing and concealing associations we may have of East and West.

BREENSPACE
Until August 11, 2012
Sydney

Crossings, 2012, photograph, 75 x 75cm
Courtesy the artist and BREENSPACE

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