Cara Fox & Douglas Pope
Nov 12th to Dec 3rd, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
While We Watch You Sleep
November 12th to December 3rd
OPENING Sat Nov 12th 6 - 9pm.
‘While We Watch You Sleep’
DOUGLAS E POPE & CARA FOX
‘While We Watch You Sleep’ combines the writings of Cara Fox and photography of Douglas E Pope in a series focusing on sleep, vulnerability and trust. Through intimate extracts of that most vulnerable human state, sleep, the collection documents the subjects' nocturnal experiences, creating short stories around them.
Both the artists have approached this body of work with different processes. Cara has been going to friends and friends of friends’ houses to share their beds with them. Noting interesting habits and patterns in their nocturnal hours, she is experiencing a side of people that she would of never have previously known and writing prose about it.
Douglas on the other hand has opted to approach his works with stealth, asking the sleeper to leave a key out and a light on in their room before creeping into their abodes in the early hours of the morning and taking photos of them while they sleep. The result is a uniquely intimate collection of media.
The exhibition is a collection of photographs and writing as well as a self-published zine of the same content (in progress).
Both the artists have approached this body of work with different processes. Cara has been going to friends and friends of friends’ houses to share their beds with them. Noting interesting habits and patterns in their nocturnal hours, she is experiencing a side of people that she would of never have previously known and writing prose about it.
Douglas on the other hand has opted to approach his works with stealth, asking the sleeper to leave a key out and a light on in their room before creeping into their abodes in the early hours of the morning and taking photos of them while they sleep. The result is a uniquely intimate collection of media.
The exhibition is a collection of photographs and writing as well as a self-published zine of the same content (in progress).
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