Signs of Human Life

Head On Photo Festival 2013

Sally McInerney

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Dates: 16 May 2013 - 29 May 2013

Location: Ginkgo Gallery 166 St Johns Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia

Hours: Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-2pm

Entry Fee: Free

Exhibition Event:

Official Opening 16/05/2013 8:00 am

Where signs and scribblings become inadvertent autobiographical communiqués.

In this exhibition McInerney focuses our attention on signs and scribblings which are often overlooked as we pursue our hurried schedules. Says McInerney:

“I love the human character of certain handmade signs in public places, particularly when microcosmic unintended autobiographies can be read between the lines. Even the tourists’ habit of scratching names in scenic rock can seem like a form of pathetic letter-writing to the world.

These self-memoralisations, proclamations of love, searches for lost companion animals, the would-be selling of labour, sex, eggs and unbroken horses, are like communiqués from otherwise obscure shadow-caves in the borderlands of public life.”