II. Exhibition Documentation /

Dark Matter - Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.

November 2016

Dark Matter is an exploration of the lens-based practice of Ann Shelton in which time, place, narrative, trauma and female authorship unfold in shifting and destabilising ways. Her engagement with the fragmented nature of the social body, particularly those of counter cultures, and those who are at the edges of culture both literally or as subjects in film or literature, has been the force behind major bodies of work from Redeye to Public Places. Other substantial works such as once more from the street and in a forest reveal the conceptual focus and psychological strategies Shelton brings in her dialogue with overlooked and unwanted histories. Works introduce clues to an uncertain narrative and they are destabilising in the sense of offering concrete clues to an unsolvable mystery.

Dark Matter includes new work created in the studio that reveals Shelton’s ability to recover the unseen and overlooked histories and bring them into the light of day. Shelton’s photographs are a locus for the unfolding of the deep investigations in which meaning always remains at one remove.

Dates: 26 Nov 2016 — 17 Apr 2017

Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
jane says, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
jane says, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
jane says, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
jane says, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
everyone in the cinema is watching the prison, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
in a forest, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
in a forest, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
in a forest, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
in a forest, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
once more from the street, in a forest, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
once more from the street, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
room room, jane says, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
room room, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
room room, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
once more from the street, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
room room, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
once more from the street, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Public Places, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Public Places, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Public Places, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Public Places, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Public Places, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
K Hole, my friends are electric, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
my friends are electric, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
K Hole, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Public Places, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
technologies of the self (remote self-portraits), Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
my friends are electric, Redeye, technologies of the self (remote self-portraits), Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Public Places, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Redeye, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Redeye, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Abigail’s Party, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Abigail’s Party, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Abigail’s Party, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Abigail’s Party, my friends are electric, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
Abigail’s Party, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
the city of lead and gold, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
doublethink, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
a library to scale, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
a library to scale, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
a library to scale, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
a library to scale, Dark Matter, 2016. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.
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