The Rehearsal (dedicated to Augustine)
Installation, Portrait, Various materials, 27x42cm
The Rehearsal (dedicated to Augustine) consciously references archive photography made in the Salpêtrière Asylum, Paris at the end of the 19th century. These anthropological studies of women who had experienced trauma became central to constructing what became a visual language of hysteria.
Fairbrother uses these documents as her starting point in order to enact a series of gestures. The work forms a conversation between them and her own experience, drawing on clichéd concepts of femininity from the Victorian period through to present day Hollywood film.
The 35 mm self-portraits loop continually, placing her in an endless performance of ambivalence.
The work is an installation of 80 analogue photographs, projected in the gallery space.
Fairbrother uses these documents as her starting point in order to enact a series of gestures. The work forms a conversation between them and her own experience, drawing on clichéd concepts of femininity from the Victorian period through to present day Hollywood film.
The 35 mm self-portraits loop continually, placing her in an endless performance of ambivalence.
The work is an installation of 80 analogue photographs, projected in the gallery space.
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