Renata Buziak: reveal

Overview

If you studied art in school, then you probably made your own photograms. Sans camera, they're created by placing objects on photographic paper, then exposing the sheet to light. It's an easy but underrated art form, all silhouettes, texture, surfaces and visual poetry — but, we're guessing your dabbling didn't quite turn out like Renata Buziak's series of images, however.

In reveal, Buziak turns photograms into a form of self portraiture, capturing her physical presence during a solitary performance. Spending days alone in a dark room, she fashioned pictures that achieve what all snaps aim to — painting with light.

The results are on display at Onespace Gallery from September 20 to October 21, with an opening event at 4pm on September 23. Whatever you learned in school, you'll pick up a whole new appreciation for this style of image-making, and for quite the alternative to selfies.

Image: Renata Buziak, 'Softly pressing down' (detail), 2017, C-Type print on aluminium, 186 x 29 cm.