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THE ERRATICS . Darren Harvey-Regan

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In geology an erratic is a rock that differs in type from those around it, having been carried over large distances by long-vanished glaciers. Harvey-Regan’s eponymous series questions the medium of photography and its ability to extract from contexts and alter perception. Originating in the artist’s desire to liberate himself from the weight of representational imagery - a yearning for abstraction - alongside a converse desire to engage with appearances as only photography can, The Erratics began as a series of large format photographs in the Egyptian desert, capturing chalk monoliths in the most objective manner possible. These images were followed by months of meticulously carving and photographing chalk rocks in the studio, forcing a geometry and line to shape the objects towards the photographic surfaces they eventually become. The Erratics combines these sets of images within a new text work by Harvey-Regan that explores how the processes and concerns within the work might be further expressed and shaped through the act of writing.

En géologie, un bloc erratique est un fragment de roche de taille relativement importante qui se distingue des autres pierres l’environnant parce qu’il a été déplacé, parfois sur de grandes distances, par la fonte d’un glacier.

Le travail éponyme de Darren Harvey-Regan questionne la nature même du médium photographique et trouve son origine dans la volonté de l’auteur de s’affranchir du poids de la représentation. Une soif d’abstraction.

Une série de monolithes de craie situés dans le désert égyptien, pris de la manière la plus objective possible, à la chambre grand format, constitue le point de départ de The Erratics. S’en suivent alors des mois de studio concentrés sur des lignes et des plans, à photographier minutieusement les blocs de pierre.

A ces deux corpus d’images le livre confronte également un travail littéraire de l’artiste qui prolonge sa réflexion sur la forme photographique.

THE ERRATICS . Darren Harvey-Regan

RVB books 2017 / Shortlist for the 2017 PhotoBook Awards Aperture Paris Photo 

19x24 cm

Cardboard cover

80 pages

40 color photographs

Text by Darren Harvey-Regan

ISBN 979-10-90306-59-2

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2018-02-28

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