2024 Graduate Work, Victorian College of the Arts
This work explores the ways fabric can evoke memories and hold familial fragments. Beds, sheets, doonas and clothing fold into one another to fracture time and hold space for reflection. There’s both a fragility and resilience in these time capsules. Many of the photographs crop into themselves, removing context, but leaving remnants of texture, light and feeling, echoing the nostalgia of hand-me-downs and my grandma’s quilts.
“Rogers’s work is a photographic series of domestic fabrics that spans an entire section of the corridor. I attempt to capture a view of all of the work, but struggle as I’m interrupted by passersby and an intruding pipe that runs down the wall.
The work comes alive as you forget about the big picture and accept Rogers’s invitation to look closer. Rogers specifically frames and installs each photograph to embrace its unique quirk. Most of her photos are cropped to examine close-ups of the folds, light, and texture.
The fragmentation in this year’s photography cohort invites viewers to actively confront the work in order to piece the sections together—both visually and conceptually. Hogan, Monaghan, and Rogers all experiment with sculptural and photographic techniques that breadcrumb layers of storytelling. The three artists embody notions of time in their works, connecting their present moment to the histories that have come before them.”
Ella Peck, Mass Memo