
Pass, courtesy the artist.

Pass, courtesy the artist.

Pass, courtesy the artist.

Pass, courtesy the artist.
Susan Long's Pass opens a poetic space in which the interfaces of minimalist, abstract painting, photography and the everyday are subtly investigated and challenged. Long's photographs of urban surfaces are shot to scale, with many of the pictorial and compositional elements of traditional representational photography pared back or discarded, creating a visual field in which colour, pattern and tone appear to assume primacy. Both mimicking and referencing minimal abstract painting, Long's photographs create surfaces which seem to stretch beyond the borders of their photographic paper, fashioning an image which is both expansive and elusive, refusing the easily recognisable-and thus, easily consumable-concern with subject which pervades much contemporary photo media. Cracks in a wall, painted-over graffiti and industrial fittings provide a point of rest for our eyes, and a focus-pull back into the realm of realism and representation. Long anchors the photographs in the material world, inviting the viewer to reconsider both the urban surfaces depicted in the work and the act of looking itself (and, by extension, the act of representing). In this way, Pass enacts a kinetic tension between abstraction and representation which advocates a transformed sense of beauty and the real. Jeff Khan

Pass, courtesy the artist.
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