Darren Harvey-Regan
Darren Harvey-Regan’s work, challenges the viewer to distinguish where representation ends and the object begins.
His latest solo exhibition, titled ‘New Works’ brings together his recent work, which explores the interplay between image, object and meaning, and often blurs the distinction between photography and installation.
Harvey-Regan’s broader practice presents an on-going interest in the ways we construct meaning through appropriation. His presentation of photographs in interaction with objects and text serves to highlight the natural tensions within representation; between the photograph as an object and the image of the world it contains.
“There is a certain hybrid of photography and installation that has crept into my practice; an interplay between the photograph as object, the object as photograph. I aim to follow this by drawing on further ideas concerning limits and resistance, authorship (and the loss of it). I see the medium of photography, with its treacherous relationship to truth claims, as being particularly pertinent to my concerns. In this way, I consider the photograph as being something not only to think about, but to think with,” Darren Harvey-Regan.
‘New Works’ by Darren Harvey-Regan Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London, UK from Thursday 31 January to Friday 8 March 2013.
