A NEW exhibition of photographs by Jacqueline Felstead is on show at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
In Felstead’s Gatwick Private Hotel, the self-conscious residents of a notoriously violent rooming house are photographed posed while obscured by their bedding.
Felstead grapples with an inequitable photography, knowing that to not be present at all renders one powerless.
"Anonymity and invisibility are harbingers of social inequality in a contemporary culture that increasingly relies upon visual representation. To be invisible is to disappear," she says.
Of the residents, the owner of the hotel, says: "Most keep to themselves, stay in their room or go about their business without bothering anyone ... Most of the residents you wouldn't know existed."
The exhibition is open to the public now and will be officially launched on Saturday, October 11 from 2pm to 4pm.
Also this Saturday, join artists, scientists and conservationists in a discussion of animal and human relationships at the Nature in the Dark Conference - book online via www.trybooking.com/101904
The conference serves as a finale to the Nature in the Dark exhibition at the VAC, which closes this Sunday.