Noah Friebel, Florentine Gate and Pillar, 2019, silver gelatin prints in custom frames, Left 50 x 35 x 19 cm. Right 48 x 33 x 17 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Noah Friebel, Finn Slough, 2019, silver gelatin print in custom frame, 38.10 x 30.48 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
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Passage
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Passage brings together a body of recent photographic works by Noah Friebel centred on the picturing of architected spaces. Friebel’s works utilize both depicted and actual space to consider the ways in which we are affected by and internalize structures within our built environment.
Depicting a variety of locations, the places pictured share a common tension between their historic practical purpose and their current aesthetic function. Many of the images included in this body of work are of barriers found on the border between public and private space. For Friebel, this sociopolitical and economic space serves as an allegorical conflict that runs parallel with artistic conflicts that grapple with the border of inner and outer spaces.
Friebel’s images are enclosed in framing devices that physically repurpose and visually disrupt the motifs within the image. These framing devices, both handmade and mechanically produced, become extensions of the images and allow possible sites for the pictures to inhabit. Through their physicality, the works presented in Passage open new views into photography’s representation of urban and domestic architecture, engaging the body in the act of viewing to better consider the influence of these spaces and generate new spatial encounters.
Please note that this exhibition is only accessible by stairs.
