The Rehearsal (dedicated to Augustine)
The Rehearsal (dedicated to Augustine) consciously references archive photography made in the Salpêtrière Asylum, Paris at the end of the 19th century. These anthropological studies of women who had experienced trauma were central to constructing what became a visual language of hysteria.
Fairbrother uses images of the patient Augustine as her starting point in order to enact a series of her own gestures, recording them as 35 mm slides and displaying them as repeating images in a single analogue projection. The self-portraits loop continuously, placing her in an endless staged ambivalence.
The work acts as a conversation between performances of femininity encountered from the Victorian period through to present day Hollywood film.
Fairbrother uses images of the patient Augustine as her starting point in order to enact a series of her own gestures, recording them as 35 mm slides and displaying them as repeating images in a single analogue projection. The self-portraits loop continuously, placing her in an endless staged ambivalence.
The work acts as a conversation between performances of femininity encountered from the Victorian period through to present day Hollywood film.
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