PETRI DISH


22 March – 22 March 2017

Elaine Campaner photographs transient dioramas of found objects. She plays with the spatial relationships between objects, discovering evocative connections, visual illusions and conceptual complexity. Petri Dish represents certain types of environmental and political imagery that ‘seeps’ into the artist’s domestic life. Potent symbols and forms re-emerge in the miniature world of everyday things: control towers in coffee pots, cooling towers in saltshakers. Campaner compares her photography to painting, explaining that the object merely replaces the brush. Her eye and imaginative powers are focused on the formal qualities and metaphorical possibilities of objects, and the ways in which they might interact "to make an image with its own internal visual coherence and narrative."

White Brick Blond Brick 2017
Water Cooling Lake (Close) 2017
Water Cooling Lake (Autumn) 2017
Viewing Platform 2017
Viewing Lounge 2017
The White House (found ready-made figures, miniature souvenir White House replica) 2007 2017
Steam Stacks 2017
Precipice 2017
Power Plant 2017
Poplars 2017
Lifeboat (sand atoll) 2017
Lake 2017
Energy Plant(aerial) 2017
Energy Plant 2017
Electricity Pole 2017
Dish (Call me home, is anybody out there?) 2016
Amsterdam III (Life Boat) 2017
Cooling Towers 2017
Amsterdam II 2017