‘In the requisition of the ephemeral:
emerging & evolving’

‘In the requisition of the ephemeral: emerging & evolving #1’

Digital C-type photographic print on crystal archive paper.

dimensions: 55.88 x 40.64cm

Edition of 10

2019

‘In the requisition of the ephemeral: emerging and evolving’ is a selection of photographic works created between 2019 and 2021.
This collection of works originate from an ongoing series of photographic images that intend to refine and redefine the contexts of the ephemeral and its realisation in contemporary art practice.

Working amongst an ever-emerging exploratory archive of incidental and transient occurrences, this series investigates the context of the event in situ that is captured, processed and developed. 

Realised as finished photographic works, the raw photographic images captured in this series were taken into a development stage, cultivating a regenerative creative methodology. This process operates in response to the idea of the event, its representation and the status of the documentative found in lens and time-based media.

Here, the selected works and the ongoing research in this series concludes, recovers and exemplifies the ephemeral, in the terms of chance and the coincidental, to the idea of ambiguity, in the context of the documentative and the development of the photographic image in contemporary art practice.

‘In the requisition of the ephemeral: emerging & evolving’ is a book published by Phenomena Fine Art and the Independent Publishing Network in 2020 of selected photographic works by Gary James Williams with an introduction by the artist and text by writer & artist Jo Manby.

The selected photographic works are taken from the artist’s ongoing research into the context of the ephemeral and its articulation in contemporary art practice

©️ Gary James Williams