Archives of Becoming: Justine Varga’s Masque – Kirsty Baker

I am a disquieted archive… A thing made up of infinite, intractable traces. (i)

– Julietta Singh

Hand-scratched with looping scrawls of drawn line, smeared by painterly gesture, flecked with negative … Continued

The Fragile Border

 … the fragile border … where identities (subject/object, etc) do not exist or only barely so – double, fuzzy, heterogeneous, animal, metamorphosed, altered, abject.[i]                             –   Julia Kristeva

Convention leads us to believe that the photographic … Continued

Justine Varga on Fusuma

The panels that comprise Fusuma derive from a single cameraless exposure of a 10 x 8 inch negative. This exposure was made while I was resident in London. It was there that I was briefed about … Continued

Justine Varga on Maternal Line

What is the transaction that takes place when a photographic portrait is made? This question is key to understanding Maternal Line, a photograph I made earlier this year and submitted to the Olive Cotton … Continued

Memoire

Made without a camera and over extended periods, my photographs embody a particular intersection of time and place, offering an autobiographical witnessing of the world, a memoire, rather than mere acts of representation. These photographs come into being as … Continued