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Margate Sands
An interactive photographic and sound installation.
Eight 16"x 20" b&w photographs.
Eight speaker cones with concealed audio sound loops.
Eight women stand alone on the pier or promenade of British seaside resorts.
These found photographs are honeymoon portraits which reveal the womens'
uncertainty in front of the lens and in the company of their new husband.
An exploration of how our sexual identity has changed through the generations.
In contrast to the uncertainty in the images, a series of frank audio interviews
reveal intimate, disturbing and humorous moments from honeymoons taken in
the UK before the 1960's.
These women recall their nervousness at finding themselves alone with their
new husbands and many speak for the first time of the intimacy of that first
night. The voices are the result of a series of interviews with women aged
60 – 84.
Margate Sands is part of a collection of work which has evolved from found
images.
Commissioned
by the Focal Point Gallery.
Exhibited at 'Revealing' Focal Point Gallery 1997 and 'Evidence' at Maidstone
Museum 1998
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