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Andy
Klunder’s practice is concerned with the evanescent and
fleeting aspects of the material world, and our own transitory
condition. Initially manifested in sculptural forms, his work
since 2005 has visualized these pre-occupations through the
mediums of photography and video.
Concentrating broadly on landscape and, latterly, the urban
environment the work has developed two related strands; the
one a representation of the city, most often mediated by conditions
of obscuration (e.g. rain, mist, reflection, dirt); the other
focusing on the random human-complicit objects which inhabit,
in varying states of effacement, the city’s marginal spaces.
An aesthetic of the obscure, the decrepit, the discarded and
the over-looked rooted fundamentally in the Sublime, where obscurity
triumphs over clarity in its power to enlist the imagination,
underscores Klunder’s images. They can be viewed as a
necessary counterfoil to the digital age’s pre-occupation
with ever more pin-point accuracy, definition and precision.
An understanding of everything as either coming into, or fading
out of, being is fundamental to the work. Everything, even if
it is not immediately apparent in our everyday visual experience,
hovers dynamically between these two states. The success of
an image is judged on the degree to which it suggests this flux.
The medium itself is complicit in this process (as Stephen Batchelor
has noted) in that all photographs are contingent, a trace of
a unique and unrepeatable circumstance of light and matter.
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