Isi Ricco
Photography and painting are critically interconnected in my practice. Through both these mediums, my work explores the space where figuration and abstraction intersect. While my painting approach is at times more gestural and at others more restrained, listening to the formal elements of photographic imagery, such as line and shape, guides the compositional framework of my paintings.
Currently my practice explores how analogue photographic processes such as creating multiple exposures can be reimagined through painting. By presenting multiple images organised within a single frame, the double exposure offers more than one narrative, place or moment. Through the painting process, my work aims to celebrate this often unintentional camera process and how it challenges the inherent ‘truth’ of the photograph. This body of work investigates the interaction of different landscape images playing on their symbiosis, such as the meeting of horizon lines; while conversely, drawing on how this juxtaposition works to disrupt a ‘complete’ sense of place.
Acknowledgement of Country
I would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, who are the Traditional Custodians of the land where I reside and in which my artistic practice takes place. I would also like to extend my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
I would like to acknowledge the Noongar people of Whadjuk country and Ballardong country and the Larrakia people of Larrakia country, who are the Traditional Owners of the land I have recently passed through. I would also like to extend my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
Untitled 2, 2020
Oil, pastel and spray paint on board
505mm x 400mm x 10mm
Untitled 1, 2019
Oil paint and pastel on board
405mm x 305mm x 10mm
Urban Composition, 2019
Mixed media on paper
260mm x 150mm x 1mm
Lancelin WA, 2020
Oil on board
400mm x 395mm x 5mm
South East, 2020
Oil on polyester cotton
400mm x 525mm x 1mm
Across the Border, 2020
Oil on polyester cotton
365mm x 420mm x 1mm
Double Exposure Images, 2020
Video compilation of analogue photographs
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