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BIO/CV CREATIVE WORK SHOWREEL PRESS
 
Houdini: PHOTOGRAPHER.
 
Houdini #1. Lambda print. 100cm x75cm Houdini #2. Lambda print. 100cm x75cm
   
Houdini #3. Lambda print. 100cm x75cm Houdini #4. Lambda print. 100cm x75cm
   
 
Houdini #5. Lambda print. 100cm x75cm  
 

(...) Sarah-Mace Dennis challenges the concept of time as being fixed or finite. She manipulates her images, in the manner of traditional spectral photography (fake photos of ghosts or disturbing phenomenon) to show the past and present in one image.

Often using multiple images of herself in her work, Dennis creates a narrative of overlapping personal lives, moments occurring simultaneously, suggesting that reality is more complex and multilayered than we might think.

Her Houdini series uses images of cells, landscapes and her own falling figure, fuelled by a desire to photograph empty rooms and spaces.

'Sometimes the energy that seems to circulate in these empty spaces carries a presence that's beyond comprehension,' she says.

(...)

'I like exploring the idea that time is parallel rather than linear,' Dennis says

'So perhaps there aren't really ghosts, just people still alive in other rooms, in other pieces of time'

Judy Anderson from her article Images of life and death The Weekend Bulletin: Paradise. October 1-2, 2005.