Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets
Digital ready-made, edition 1, 1AP
2010 = present
Digital ready-made, edition 1, 1AP
2010 = present
2017 - 19 | Print output: C-41 digital photographs | 50 prints; Scale: 15cm x 20cm | Edition size: 1
Of note, Sylvia prefers to refer to her completed artworks from this series as 'digital ready-mades'
Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets is an on-going series in which a camera is placed on the horizon of each watercolour ground. The cameras' lenses hover in place of the sun in these digitally constructed montages.
Like Magritte’s Ceci n'est pas une pipe this series offers the viewer a set of contradictions to negotiate in order to understand the work. The cameras and watercolour paintings are referenced by name in the title but by medium are reproductions, which do not "satisfy emotionally” the actual objects and/or depicted events.
Sylvia's artworks in this series are constructed from amateur photographs of cameras and watercolour paintings found from online auction websites. As digital constructs from found web photographs, the series also collapses time, media, and locations together. The series draws on the metaphoric notion that sunsets can also allude to 'an end.' Indeed the juxtaposition of the analog cameras depicted with the sunsets references the slow change over to digital recording techniques and the end to the days wherein film cameras were favoured by amateur photographers.
REVIEWS
2018
Borda, Sylvia Grace. “Locating the Camera” in Photographies, Taylor and Francis Publishers, London, UK vol 11, 2018 ISSN: 1754-0771
2016
Travis, Rebecca. "The only thing that’s changed is everything" feature article in the 2016 Summer edition of Scottish Society for the History of Photography https://web.archive.org/web/20180902212635/http://sshop.org.uk/project/rebecca-travis/
2014
Travis, Rebecca. “Sylvia Grace Borda: Camera Histories” in Reviews: Photomonitor, UK. January 27, 2014
https://photomonitor.co.uk/exhibition/sylvia-grace-borda-camera-histories/
“Art in Scotland TV channel feature: Sylvia Grace Borda Camera Histories – Artist interview” produced by Summerhall TV, Dec 29, 2013 http://www.artinscotland.tv/2013/sylvia-grace-borda-camera-histories/
Artist video interview (December 5, 2013) with Christiane Monarchi, editor of PhotoMonitor Magazine about 'Cameras and Watercolour sunset' series and other works presented in the exhibition 'Camera Histories' presented at Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (November 23, 2013 - February 2, 2014).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jo7lxuQ-KU
Like Magritte’s Ceci n'est pas une pipe this series offers the viewer a set of contradictions to negotiate in order to understand the work. The cameras and watercolour paintings are referenced by name in the title but by medium are reproductions, which do not "satisfy emotionally” the actual objects and/or depicted events.
Sylvia's artworks in this series are constructed from amateur photographs of cameras and watercolour paintings found from online auction websites. As digital constructs from found web photographs, the series also collapses time, media, and locations together. The series draws on the metaphoric notion that sunsets can also allude to 'an end.' Indeed the juxtaposition of the analog cameras depicted with the sunsets references the slow change over to digital recording techniques and the end to the days wherein film cameras were favoured by amateur photographers.
REVIEWS
2018
Borda, Sylvia Grace. “Locating the Camera” in Photographies, Taylor and Francis Publishers, London, UK vol 11, 2018 ISSN: 1754-0771
2016
Travis, Rebecca. "The only thing that’s changed is everything" feature article in the 2016 Summer edition of Scottish Society for the History of Photography https://web.archive.org/web/20180902212635/http://sshop.org.uk/project/rebecca-travis/
2014
Travis, Rebecca. “Sylvia Grace Borda: Camera Histories” in Reviews: Photomonitor, UK. January 27, 2014
https://photomonitor.co.uk/exhibition/sylvia-grace-borda-camera-histories/
“Art in Scotland TV channel feature: Sylvia Grace Borda Camera Histories – Artist interview” produced by Summerhall TV, Dec 29, 2013 http://www.artinscotland.tv/2013/sylvia-grace-borda-camera-histories/
Artist video interview (December 5, 2013) with Christiane Monarchi, editor of PhotoMonitor Magazine about 'Cameras and Watercolour sunset' series and other works presented in the exhibition 'Camera Histories' presented at Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (November 23, 2013 - February 2, 2014).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jo7lxuQ-KU