27/7/2006
Tracey Moffat
Stills, Edinburgh
Visit the glossy, comic-strip world of Adventures by internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt. Carefully orchestrating retro images and well-worn stereotypes, including the poster-boy hero and submissive starlet, Moffatt creates heightened yet darkly ambiguous photographic narratives.
Adventures
Visit the glossy, comic-strip world of Adventures by internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt. Carefully orchestrating retro images and well-worn stereotypes, including the poster-boy hero and submissive starlet, Moffatt creates heightened yet darkly ambiguous photographic narratives.
Her elaborately staged universe reformulates stylistic motifs of popular and visual art culture, drawing upon imagery from 1970’s television and comic books together with a dash of ‘007. The resulting dream-like narratives play out the complexities surrounding issues such as gender, ethnicity, power, and violence.
Alongside Adventures Stills presents LOVE, a spectacular cut-and-paste video work which carefully splices together scenes from some of the artist’s favourite Hollywood melodramas. Cinematic cliche' gives way to a darkly sexy feminism with hours of film edited to a succession of passionate embraces, acts of betrayal, frenzied violence and finally revenge.
Adventures is presented in partnership with the Victoria Miro Gallery (www.victoria-miro.com) and is part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (www.edinburghartfestival.com)
Preview Thursday 27th July 6pm - 8pm
Stills
23 Cockburn Street - Edinburgh
Daily 11am - 6pm
Admission Free