Loving me Loving You

Loving Me, Loving You, a series of large photographic images by Ingrid Boberg showing at Whitespace 1 Morgan St, Newmarket Auckland 09 524 0644
April 17-May7

When the body is the primary mode of perceiving scale, and we encounter large images of miniaturised ornaments, we can imagine ourselves as object and agent all at once. This is apparent when viewing Ingrid Boberg's large-scale photography titled Loving Me Loving You. These works, articulate both the experienced and the imagined, operating within a context of history, invented by narrative.
In the satisfaction of collecting, the pleasure of possessing an object is dependent upon others. Through the photographic documenting of such collected objects this pleasure is passed to the viewer. The artist distances these small objects from the display cabinet, and re-sites them inside personalised environments, stripping them of their original souvenir status and reloading them with a new significance. In their careful positioning the ornaments pose a raft of emotional responses and attitudes toward intimate encounters and relationships. These works quietly speak of an interiority of space usually reserved for private reflection and gratification while conveying a modus operandi, which is given currency through popular culture and the desire for love.

Long live the cute wee thing.
www.whitespace.co.nz
Loving me Loving You

Loving Me, Loving You, a series of large photographic images by Ingrid Boberg showing at Whitespace 1 Morgan St, Newmarket Auckland 09 524 0644
April 17-May7

When the body is the primary mode of perceiving scale, and we encounter large images of miniaturised ornaments, we can imagine ourselves as object and agent all at once. This is apparent when viewing Ingrid Boberg's large-scale photography titled Loving Me Loving You. These works, articulate both the experienced and the imagined, operating within a context of history, invented by narrative.
In the satisfaction of collecting, the pleasure of possessing an object is dependent upon others. Through the photographic documenting of such collected objects this pleasure is passed to the viewer. The artist distances these small objects from the display cabinet, and re-sites them inside personalised environments, stripping them of their original souvenir status and reloading them with a new significance. In their careful positioning the ornaments pose a raft of emotional responses and attitudes toward intimate encounters and relationships. These works quietly speak of an interiority of space usually reserved for private reflection and gratification while conveying a modus operandi, which is given currency through popular culture and the desire for love.

Long live the cute wee thing.
www.whitespace.co.nz