Daniel Bracken
Daniel Bracken
Plus VAT if applicable
Untitled, 2020
Digital Inkjet Print from 5 x 4 Negative Scan, with White Box Frame
Digital Inkjet Print from 5 x 4 Negative Scan, Unframed
60 x 48 cm
5 + 2AP
£1,000, £1,100
About this work
Referencing Virginia Woolf’s narrative techniques in Orlando and Mrs. Dalloway, the photographs drift past autobiography and out of their timelines or their environments, and become familiar moments that have been forever changed. The images further contrast meticulous human intervention through evidence of craft and labour. The natural world becomes changed, almost forced to stop. Time that has been lost, trapped in the instant, but mostly forgotten in these spaces and seemingly abandoned. The artist creates a defiled grave with the use of trees and its phantom limbs, illustrating an evident omnipresence. The research used in these works reference Victor Turner’s Liminal and Liminoid and Josef Sudek's Window of My Studio series; the ritualistic moments between “being” and “becoming” and concepts of time passing. At another, observing the peculiarities inherent in safety and isolation. The artist questions where the photographs sit: as doubles within nature exploring a mirror to time. Here, the viewer is forced to look between the perceived and the photographic.
About Daniel Bracken
Daniel John Bracken is a London based visual artist working primarily with photography. His research draws from alien abduction stories and modernist literary narratives, coalescing his practice around investigations into memory regression and the ontology of the photograph. Originally from New York, Daniel has a BFA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from Purchase College and has recently completed his MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. He has had works included in a number of group exhibitions and publications that have been displayed throughout Europe and the United States.
Forming an illustration of time loss, the photographic work conceptualises a gap between perceived and physical reality brushing against fleeting moments within the domestic and the natural worlds. Through manipulations inherent to photography, the images string together a narrative that alters our perceptions on looking. In this way, the photographs become spectres of memory, slipping into and out of sequence to show an affected familiar moment, a nod towards the uncanny. The photographs become timeless and frozen, used as a metaphor for memory.
Education
BFA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from Purchase College
MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art
Selected Exhibitions & Features
2021
Gathering of Visions, Haze Gallery: Group Exhibition, Berlin,Germany
2020
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery: Group Exhibition, London, U.K.
With fists, it kicks, it bites, Edel Assanti: Group Exhibition, London, U.K.
RCA 2020, Royal College of Art: Group Exhibition, London, U.K.
Queer Contemporaries, AIR Gallery: Group Exhibition, Manchester, U.K.
It’s Safe Behind the Glass, Pupil Sphere: Artist Interview, U.K.
Photographers on Photographers,Lenscratch: Artist Interview, U.S.
Issue 6, Al-Tiba 09 Magazine: Print Feature, 2020 -Spain
It’s Safe Behind the Glass,BROAD Magazine: Digital Feature, U.K.
PGZ2020 & Special Graduate Mention, Photograd: Digital Feature, U.K.
Guest Room curated by Diana Poole,Der Greif: Digital Feature, Germany
Covid-19, Six Million Ways to Cope,C41 Magazine: Digital Feature, Italy
2019
Vol. 01, Softlightning Studio Magazine: Print Feature, U.S.
I’m You Just Here,The Southwest Collective: Digital Feature, U.K.
Feminine / Masculine, PH21 Gallery: Group Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary
Everything the Same, Everything a Little Different, Art Academy Newington: Group Exhibition, London, U.K.