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Sets of 3 silver-gelatin hand prints, installed on painted pinboards. Overall dimensions approx 1000 x 1500 mm Unrelated Incidents #1 Unrelated Incidents #2 Unrelated Incidents #3 click images for close-ups In 1993 the artist started buying black and white photographs from archives being sold at Amsterdam flea-markets. Sometimes the archives were mixed up and the difference between something like a film production still and a forensic or documentary photograph was blurred. The viewer often treats images with different gravity, depending on whether they are presented as documentary evidence or fictional constructions. Also inspired by the Amsterdam-based crime novels of Janwillem van de Wetering and the photographs of Weegee, Dower decided to pursue his own ‘detective instinct’ by always carrying a camera around to document street scenes. The resulting images of chance events relating to disaster or intrigue were matched up in sets of three, suggesting an ambiguous narrative space. 
Unrelated Incidents #2, installed in the solo exhibition 'Rorschach' at Exedra, Hilversum NL. 1997 |
