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DOOMED

Tracey Moffatt2007

Chennai Photo Biennale

Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India

Tracey Moffatt’s video collage, DOOMED (2007), features depictions of doom and destruction – war, violence and terror – as they appear in cinema, one of our entertainment options. In collaboration with Gary Hillberg, DOOMED comprises cut-and paste editing techniques in a highly entertaining and black-humorous take on the bleak side of our current psychological landscape. Moffatt’s film looks at both entirely fictional and reconstructed disastrous events. Each scene carries a particular cargo of references. They occupy their own unique symbolism and filmic territory – the poignant, sublime and epic, the tragic, the B-grade and downright trashy. The accumulation of scenes, however, within Moffatt’s own essaying, creates a narrative whole comprised of parts. Not only does Moffatt play within the ‘disaster’ genre, re-presenting representations, she revels in it. Moffatt points at how the viewer is involved in filmic narratives through the emotionally hook, by the promise of imminent disaster, an important narrative device.

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  • Title: DOOMED
  • Creator: Tracey Moffatt
  • Date Created: 2007
  • Location: Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
  • Type: Photograph
  • Original Source: Artist Website
  • External Link: See more at Chennai Photo Biennale's website
  • Exhibition title: Fractured
  • Exhibition Description: Broken up and incomplete images communicate in a loose and ever changing universe
  • CPB Edition: 2019
  • Artist's biography: Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s most renowned contemporary artists. Working predominantly in photography, film and video, Moffatt is known as a powerful visual storyteller. The narrative is often implied and self-referential, exploring her own childhood memories and fantasies, and the broader issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity.
Chennai Photo Biennale

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