Exuberant, multi-layered, mercurial, this Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre-originated show is a sight to behold. The only disappointment about Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph is that it will not tour. The collective energy at the New Plymouth location deserves a greater wandering.
As a child, my universe was slowly deconstructed. Through science experiments and through logic, the mysteries of the cosmos could be explained. But this did not mean magic was lost-instead, the invisible materialised and the microscopic became gigantic. Emanations is this sense of wonder manifest, sometimes playful, at other times foreboding.
Curated by Geoffrey Batchen, noted international photographic historian and Professor of Art History at Victoria University of Wellington, with significant curatorial assistance from the Govett-Brewster’s Paul Brobbel and Sarah Wall, the show is the most…
