The Alps
(2020); printed 2022
- Medium
- cibachrome photograph
- Measurements
- (76.0 × 64.0 cm) (image and sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Edition
- ed. 1/3
- Accession Number
- 2022.169
- Department
- Australian Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2022
© Ali McCann - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Taking cues from outmoded photography guides, amateur artworks, and 1970s domestic and educational interiors, Ali McCann’s staged photographs examine the aesthetics of education, nostalgia and memory. This photograph, like many that she creates, was made in the artist’s studio using a series of props placed into still-life compositions. The resulting work plays with ideas of illusion and objective realities, collapsing and rebuilding assumptions of our ability as viewers to ‘read’ a photograph. This has become a continued theme in McCann’s work, which is inspired by Dada and Surrealist photography in the way it recontextualises what McCann refers to as ‘the psychological space’ occupied by these artefacts.