Through movement, materiality, and a texturing of sensation, the artworks in Fleeting bring into sight the intensities of the ordinary in compositions of disparate scenes and transient fragments.
Fleeting is things in motion. Things defined by their capacity to affect and can only be seen obtusely in the haptic space in the middle of things—a space that exists between the representational and the abstract. In attempt to slow our quick jump to representational thinking, this photographic series questions our well-known picture of the world; provoking attention to those somethings (things that happen) that throw themselves together at an immanent force.
Jacinta Giles is a conceptual artist working at the intersection of photography, collage, and digital technology. Giles’ interests lie in investigating our complex relationship to the photographic image and its capacity to reveal the sensory fragments of human experience. Her entangled pictures of reality and the media, past and present, subject and object —created through lens-based processes that take their cues from how memory operates — materialise as gestures. The elastic nature of her photographs seek to tether together personal experience, shared understanding, and our present cultural context.
Giles studied at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, and has exhibited in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her work is included in both private and public collections.
Image: Surface, 2021, Jacinta Giles, dye sublimation on aluminium, hexaptych (each image 15 x 10cm), unique print. Image courtesy of the artist and Jan Manton Gallery.
