Charlotte Tegan: Superimposition

Overview

The photography of Charlotte Tegan is not so distant from what one might label as 'happy snaps'. That is, her photographs foster a sense of familiarity and comfort in anyone who's looking at them. Tegan focuses on identifiable places, everyday scenarios and playful, light scenes that you could probably pull from your old family photo albums. It's in her latest exhibition Superimposition, that the full spectrum and force of Tegan's analogue film photography comes together, acting as a vehicle for personal memory and recollection.

Tegan's work has a habit of breaking scene —and in turn, viewer's recollections — through her sharp and angular imagery, and use of inversion, repetition and superimposition. Each of her pieces is like a gem, mirroring each another and cutting through whatever sense of nostalgia it might stir. The result is something quite confusing and uncomfortable. While the subject matter is quite innocent, it results in a sense of disquiet and anxiety that places the audience in doubt of their own mind, and provides a window into the fragility of human memory.

Charlotte Tegan's Superimposition shows at Bakery Lane's This Must Be The Place until February 12. Opening night is January 22 6pm to 9pm.