“Background Portraits”
Jessica Brent and SIBLING
18 Oct → 16 Nov 2013

Background Portraits presents a collection of Jessica Brent’s photographs that examine ideas of place and the spatial and emotional relationships between forms.

Transcending traditional perceptions of the landscape and built forms, these photographs encourage a new way of seeing these subjects, allowing them to become background portraits; where a landscape or building is engaged with on the same emotional level as one human being engages with another. Deserts, oceans, trees, and buildings become anthropomorphised, with an emergence of personalities that are equal to those of their human peers.

The work explores the emotional undercurrents that exist between the built world, the natural world, and the world of personal experience. Each photograph represents a specific experience of reality, yet at the same time could be seen to transcend the specific form within the image and its geographical location. They begin to speak to a larger, universal network of threads, that connects all things.

SIBLING will create a series of structures that integrate and display the photographs, complimenting the juxtapositions of imagery.

Jessica Brent is a photographer based in Melbourne. She has studied Architecture and Graphic Design and is a co-founding member of Sibling, a multi-disciplinary design collective.

SIBLING is a design collective that works at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, cultural analysis and graphic communication to produce new and unexpected spatial outcomes. Whether the outcome be a building, installation, urban strategy or event, SIBLING’s approach insists on intelligent forms while fostering a positive socially engaged agenda.