Collection in Focus: Between Urgency and Leisure
By recent estimates, there are around 750 billion images currently in circulation online. And that is only 6 percent of the total photos that have been taken, but never shared online. The acceleration of the ways and the rate in which photos are now shared has no doubt changed our relationship to the photo image, as well as the ways in which these images are stored. Photographs, now, serve as a kind of proof of life. They are taken hurriedly, in a rush to capture a fleeting moment or to act as a stand in when our memory may fail us. They are taken with care, and often repeated in multiples, to ensure that we can properly represents ourselves, our families and our communities in moments of relaxation and joy.
Between Urgency and Leisure presents a group of photographic works from the collection of Penrith Regional Gallery, alongside newly acquired additions. The exhibition highlights the history of Penrith Regional Gallery in commissioning and presenting social photography projects that connect leading contemporary artists with communities from our region. In a time where the digital image functions as a beacon for that which is instantaneous 鈥� or urgent 鈥� as much as it records our collective pastime, this exhibition invites us to consider that which transpires in the moments in between.
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By recent estimates, there are around 750 billion images currently in circulation online. And that is only 6 percent of the total photos that have been taken, but never shared online. The acceleration of the ways and the rate in which photos are now shared has no doubt changed our relationship to the photo image, as well as the ways in which these images are stored. Photographs, now, serve as a kind of proof of life. They are taken hurriedly, in a rush to capture a fleeting moment or to act as a stand in when our memory may fail us. They are taken with care, and often repeated in multiples, to ensure that we can properly represents ourselves, our families and our communities in moments of relaxation and joy.
Between Urgency and Leisure presents a group of photographic works from the collection of Penrith Regional Gallery, alongside newly acquired additions. The exhibition highlights the history of Penrith Regional Gallery in commissioning and presenting social photography projects that connect leading contemporary artists with communities from our region. In a time where the digital image functions as a beacon for that which is instantaneous 鈥� or urgent 鈥� as much as it records our collective pastime, this exhibition invites us to consider that which transpires in the moments in between.
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