Sam Torbett - Schofield

Fine Art BA (Hons)

An exploration of the transient relationship between memory and place.

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My practise explores the material traces and liminal potential of photographic processes. I am fascinated by the notion of memory as a continual act of navigation, rather than a recollection of the bygone past. 

Two of the prints on display are photographs made with a large-scale pinhole camera, also shown within the space. for each image I constructed the camera in remote locations, used it to create an exposure, then deconstructed and removed it from the landscape. In the process, both the sculpture of the camera and the images themselves take on impressions of the spaces they occupy, both through the exposure of light and physical traces of the landscape, whilst themselves acting as transitory features of their surroundings. 

In these works, objecthood is constituted both by a material history and what is referentially depicted within a photographic image. In our memories of ourselves, others and the spaces we pass through, we collate a compound of memories that we negotiate through the momentary gaze. They fade in, fade out - at once articulated and morphed. I aim to examine a sublime, transient quality in how individual bodies of memories can be traced in the world around us.

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