A.P. (no.1)
2012 - Photography (Photography)
Erin Shirreff
Erin Shirreff’s A. P. series of prints investigates how objects are “constructed” at the level of the image. For each composite photograph, Shirreff fabricates two sculptural forms from what appear to be metal or plaster, although the precise materials are unidentified. Her sculptures resemble miniature architectural models or renderings of buildings as-yet-to-be fully conceptualized, both elemental and elegant in their use of sharp angles and clean lines. Shirreff then photographs each object against a similarly monochromatic backdrop in her studio, printing each image in rich and high-contrast greyscale. Next, she folds each print in half vertically so that the objects depicted in the image appear to be bisected. Finally, she adjoins the two folded prints at the edge of the fold, creating a new pictorial form from the two bisected images. The hybridized forms depicted in her prints resemble a jarring juxtaposition of geometric sturdiness and malleable plasticity, a cross between Tony Smith’s monolithic minimalism and Alexander Calder’s surreal wiriness. Shirreff uses photography here to imagine sculptural forms that do not exist in real life, and her work employs an illusionistic quality indebted to artistic traditions of trompe l’oeil. But Shirreff also reveals the artifice behind these images, suggesting that all pictorial representations are constructed and, in effect, can never fully document or replicate the experience of encountering an object in “real” perceptual space.
Erin Shirreff creates composite images that interrogate presumed boundaries between artifice and documentary. Originally trained as a sculptor, she works in the expanded field of photography, video, and sculpture, and her practice frequently employs multiple fine arts disciplines at once. Her work reconsiders the limits of sculptural practice by showing how image-based media can effectively be used to render hybridized shapes that do not (and arguably cannot) exist in real life. At the same time, she also reveals how these images are always deliberately constructed, leaving fold lines exposed and obvious discontinuities and aberrances in her composites. In leaving these artificial traces behind, Shirreff’s reminds us that images are always fabricated on some level and that representation itself is an artifice at its core.
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