Justine Varga, End of Violet (105Y158M), 2022. Chromogenic photograph, 157 x 122cm (sheet) 160 x 125cm (framed). Courtesy: the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.

Tolarno Galleries presents work by Justine Varga.

“Varga… has, in essence, updated the metaphysical angst of mid-century action painting for our own chaotic age, when renewed anxieties around the politics of mass media have put pressure on the fidelity associated with photographic representation. Her works dismantle the expectations that those forces cultivate by breaking down the conventions that we otherwise expect to see in photographs. In so doing, she reasserts the photograph as a trace of the world. Her rubbed, scratched, and stained surfaces have been exposed to today’s disintegrating social and ecological climate, resulting in a grand mix of personal inscription and environmental trace.” – Andrés Mario Zervigón, Professor of the History of Photography at Rutgers University (USA), 2020.

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