In March 2022, I was given a two-day residency to make some pictures in the gallery space at Photofusion. Previously, the last work I had made in Rome in 2017, was a set of experimental works opting to work only with what was ‘at hand’. Using the mops and brooms lying around the place and cardboard boxes rescued from the rubbish, objects that were worth nothing in themselves .
This time, the main driver for my Photofusion work was the ten-second timer that I set to make these pictures, each performance lasting for as long as the camera shutter remained open. I made impromptu sculptures out of the strange and assorted objects and equipment left lying around in the gallery corridors behind the scenes while the gallery space was changing prior to the next show. I became intrigued with this idea of time, speed and balance – quite literally catching moments. What interested me most, were the instants and movements a little bit off or a little bit out; implying impending disaster or complete failure, fractions of seconds before occurring.