ROGER
HANLEY
fables and reconstructions
#13
fables and reconstructions #13 2004,
type C print, 61 x 76cm,
ed. 4/10
$650 (inc GST)
If photography is a method that enables the translation of temporality into visuality, then Roger Hanley’s work might be read as a mistranslation. These photographs are all created in the camera with ultra-long exposures recording the play of both ambient and artificial light. He reveals an enticingly dream-like visual language within the quotidian banality of the vernacular landscape; aiming to depict a certain moment of transcendence from reality into a place where possibility and impossibility meet. A new world, though its syntax and symbology mostly remain cryptic, is convincingly rendered on to film. The echoes of our world however are unsettlingly detectable. There is a collision; the order and rationality of the real world confronts and melds with a moment of impossibility. The effect is like that of an echo, reverberating between actuality and fantasy.
