BLINDSPOTS
Year: 1986
Exhibited
1986, Blindspots, King Street Studios, Newton, SYDNEY
Prints Available:
Prints available on request
Blindspots, communicated the separation, pain and resilience of people Lucille met in communities of Soweto and Alexandria, near the city of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The photographic images depict day to day coming and goings of families living in those townships during the Apartheid riots of 1984. With the communities permission, Lucille brought those images back to Australia and assembled them in a major exhibition. It was also the beginning of Lucille’s early activism, through her artwork, in support of a growing global voice to end racial segregation and apartheid.
Since presenting her first solo exhibition in 1986, with the works from South Africa, her passion for humanitarian, environmental and social justice platforms continue to dominate much of the foundation of her work.
While the body of work photographed in South Africa, over 30 years ago, was predominately structured as traditional documentary process, both exhibitions titled Blindspots (1984-1986) and Bedside (2012-2019) achieve a common underlying processes of observation, repetitive capture and performative engagement.
The works speak to the process of documentary capture in both exhibitions, forming a relationship to memory and the timeline of capturing the images, which hold a similar experiential association of not being present in the body. “It is as if I am present and absent, sitter and subject with a fundamental difference, the device used to capture the image.” Lucille Martin
