Constructed photography features at UQ Art Museum

Four international artists who work in constructed photography will feature in an exhibition opening at The University of Queensland Art Museum on Saturday 1 March. The exhibition is a highlight of the Queensland Festival of Photography 5. The No Place exhibition features photographs by the USA's James Casebere and Lori Nix, China's Yao Lu and Italy's Giacomo Costa. UQ Art Museum Director Dr Campbell Gray said exhibition curator Gordon Craig had brought together artists who constructed photographic images using physical and digital studios. Dr Gray said the artists' works revealed questions about contemporary and future worlds. "As viewers, we are drawn into urban and wild places that veer from manicured suburbs to futuristic cities in decay," he said. "While we may marvel at the extraordinary environments these artists construct - either as table-top models or digitally - conceptually their photographs bear witness to often unsettling utopian and dystopian visions." New York's James Casebere has been at the forefront of constructed photography with large-scale photographs based on complex architectural models.