Natalie Bloor - Build & Fall

NATALIE BLOOR - YOUNG ARTIST

BUILD & FALL

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Build & Fall

My photographic practice explores the notion of death, memory, identity and visual authenticity.

The piece, therefore, consists of two projects which combine to create one. The first, 'Build', is a hand-drawn recreation of the white-painted bricks in my garage, which for so long had been my studio, or theatre. By re-drawing each of the individual one-hundred and eighty-one bricks I have endeavoured to recreate the same wall, the same studio and the same room in the exhibition space, thus transcending temporal location.
Simultaneously, I embarked on my 'Fall' piece, in which I sought to

recreate one of the most famous photographic images of all time: Robert Capa's 'Death of a Loyalist Militiaman, 1936', which was allegedly faked. The resultant pastiche of Capa's iconic decisive moment was re-enacted one-hundred and eighty-one times, and like 'Build', I re-constructed my garage wall with the photographs produced. Together, both elements constitute a commentary on truth, authenticity, repetition, recreation and imitation.

Info

Created

2008

Exhibited

- BUILD
SMU
- FALL
SMU, Bath
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Stock

- BUILD
Graphite Drawing,
125mm x 175mm
- FALL
35mm Film Stock,
Gelatin Silver Print,
125mm x 175mm

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