MICHAEL AWAD born 1966, Cairo, Egypt
EVAN PENNY born 1953, South Africa
A conversation is an uncertain undertaking. It is structured by a physics of language, emotion and will power. It unfolds from idea to idea, largely unscripted. In the frozen moments captured by photography and sculpture we glimpse with acuity something from these moments, but sculpture and photographs are often mute and paralyzed. How can they depict the dynamics of conversational flow? Michael Awad and Evan Penny embarked on a series of exploratory photos of Panagiota Dimos.
Awad photographed Dimos using a custommade camera built from old aerial reconnaissance equipment. The camera recorded an image over time as the moving shutter panned across the photographic plane, documenting movement and stillness in monstrous distortions. The utterances and gestures of the conversation are just barely discernable in Penny's contorted features as a remarkable record of the drama of conversation emerges. His sculpture is a near impossible proposition of what this moment could have been in space.
From original text by David Clark
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