Thresholds
2017—19
Thresholds continues my enquiry into the conditions of something being 'photographic' and how attempts to distill these explode the boundaries of photography and put it in relation to other media. It moves away from the color and heavy layering of my previous 2D work, and seeks to develop a purer approach to photographic paper as material. I'm using its basic inherent quality of light registration to create large areas of solid exposure spanning multiple sheets, and in doing so I negotiate various thresholds that define my practice – of image and imagelessness; fragment and whole; pictorial plane and support. The toolkit may be photographic, but minimalist painting and drawing are brought firmly into the frame. The pared down and more somber aesthetic also has to do with the present moment in time where the thresholds of truths, half-truths and understanding are increasingly difficult to establish.
Exhibition history:
CONCRETE LIGHT:
Nikolai Ishchuk and Fabiola Menchelli
Online exhibition / Viewing room
Marshall Contemporary, LA
June 2–21, 2020
Judith Stenneken & Nikolai Ishchuk
Marshall Contemporary, LA
July 13–27, 2019
Photo London | Discovery
Joanna Bryant & Julian Page, Stand D10
May 16-20, 2018
SALON/17
Photofusion, London
December 8, 2017 - January 13, 2018
The Manchester Contemporary
Joanna Bryant & Julian Page, Stand 744
October 27–29, 2017
Celeste Prize 2017, curated by Fatoş Üstek
The Bargehouse, OXO Tower, London
October 6–8, 2017
2017/2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
Each 91.5 x 110 x 2 cm / Total 91.5 x 370 x 2 cm
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
Selected for Celeste Prize 2017
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
Private collection
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
Private collection
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
Private collection
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
91.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
61 x 134 x 2 cm
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
48 x 22 x 2 cm
Tim Sayer / The Hepworth Wakefield collection
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
48 x 22 x 2 cm
Private collection
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
48 x 46 x 2 cm
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
48 x 46 x 2 cm
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
48 x 22 x 2 cm
2018
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
48 x 22 x 2 cm
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
96 x 22.5 x 2 cm
2017
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
30.5 x 110 x 2 cm
2017 (work) / 2018 (install)
Silver gelatin prints on expired fiber paper, acrylic, ink, mounting tape, polyurethane, aluminium
Each 91.5 x 110 x 2 cm / Total 91.5 x 370 x 2 cm