Exhibitions

Fiona Rogers -
peep

16th August - 12th September 2006

From our covert hide out, we are confronted with the uncomfortable exhilaration of watching.  Enticed and compelled 'to look', Rogers illustrates for us the stealthy, secret story of the gaze.  A restricted spy-hole view and a grainy quality to the stills propel the images outside of authorised, official documentation.  We’re made to address the eye behind the peephole just as personally as we are made to address the subject of the image.

There is a narrative element to these moments, a sinister record of time and place, and a sense of potential implication for both the voyeur and the voyée.  Rogers alludes to the sexual motivation of the peeping tom and private obsessive. But the author here is a woman and the images raise a questioning of gender roles and feminism. 

The work plays with the intimate, invasive and embarrassing.  There is a privacy to these photographs, as records and as objects, that is then monumentally exposed by their exhibition in a gallery context.

Other Artist information: www.fionarogers.blogspot.com