CORRECTIONS BY MANDY URES

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Gone is on-going project.
Gone began with a photograph of an abandoned bed we noticed in the street. Gone, the bed was gone.

“Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make you and thicken the environment we recognise as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. “ (About

Looking: John Berger, p.53)

We are interested in the idea of “ready-made objects on the street”. We traced this back to our observations of the contemporary urban landscape and the times when we took

photographs on the streets of London, Barcelona and Milan.

All this materiality will be gone one day, so we decided to take our analogue cameras and take pictures of objects lying in the street, turning them in to sculptures through a time-

based medium.

For us, what is gone could be shown back through an image but it could not be itself again - it is no longer there and a fabrication remains. What is gone is gone forever and perhaps should be gone. The composition is already established on coming across the objects and

the elements are just waiting to be discovered.

We are interested in the effect of them together but not in the process of how and why they end up together. We do not question the impulse to photograph the objects as for some reason they are together in the same place and have created a special connection. The outcome remains in our still images that are permanently saved in analogue and

scanned digital form.

We shoot with analogue cameras to make sure we can touch the materiality of the picture - a way of being closer to the abandoned materiality shown in the photography. The archive of the still images is used both for inspiration (copying) and as a final photographic installation. We copy, duplicate, re-imagine the stories behind the existence

of the objects.

New realities are suggested through simulated approaches.