#95585, Paper Bag / Print
London, UK, 2021
by Polly Tootal
The series True Fictions from an Unreal City focuses on the symbols of declining industries, radical transformations of urban development and infrastructural systems that are fundamental to serving a city. Capturing these diametrically opposed landscapes through the imagery of vistas, structures and materiality, the project investigates the nature of the periphery. It is a world that exists on the outskirts and fringes of what we associate as place, where alienation and control rule. This project attempts to place the viewer in ambiguous relation to the subject, deliberately using unspecific locations to conjure unsettling anxieties, hinting towards a dystopian future and showing our fragile contemporary condition.
Specifications:
Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag archival paper
Size 8x10″ limited edition of 100 + 1 AP
Size 12x16″ limited edition of 50 + 1 AP
Certificate of Authenticity with printed signature and numbered
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Polly Tootal’s photography has emerged out of a continual exploration of the possibilities of space between a variety of extremes; theatre/reality, the contemporary world mirroring history, transience/permanence, the bizarre in the banal.
Tootal’s ongoing topographic project Somewhere In England began in 2010 and is an exploration of undisclosed, anonymous landscapes in the U.K. Shooting mainly at dawn or twilight, these public places devoid of people appear otherworldly. Within the images she attempts to present a cultural critique on contemporary social issues whilst highlighting the idiosyncrasies of public space and illuminating the non-descript landscape in these large-scale works.
Concerned with how contemporary geopolitics restrict and displace different societal groups due to poverty and injustice - her work focuses on liminal zones, the outskirts of cities where urban and infrastructure meet, highlighting the chaos and control that power forces upon populations and the environment.
