Bodies Beyond the Skin by Isabella Capezio

Overview

Photography has historically been complicit in the colonial project, serving to capture, categorise, and narrate ecologies as 'space'—a tool for mapping, surveying, legitimising land seizure and resource exploitation.

'Bodies Beyond the Skin' interrogates how landscape photography has upheld hierarchical, masculinist assumptions and seeks to problematise this schema by using 'queer' and camp methodologies to disrupt colonial frameworks.

By misusing photographic materials, engaging in alternative processes, queering forms, and collapsing the boundaries between landscape photography, collectivity, and politics, the exhibition challenges existing narratives of the Australian landscape while offering new ways of seeing, being with, and listening to Country.

Image credit: Isabella Capezio, 'Scene/Unseen' 2024, video still. Photo courtesy the artist