The Materiality of Photography

2013, Installation with concrete slabs and photo prints in varying states of physical and chemical deterioration, Graduation exhibition, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

The topmost layer of a photo print by Maxine Chionh, nailed onto a dark grey hard board like the skein of a liquid or the hide of an animal.
A photo print on a concrete slab that has its picture surface eroded, leaving only yellow sheathes of plastic and a faded image.
Installation view of the exhibition in which disintegrated photo prints are displayed close to the ground, each lying on a concrete slab.
Zoomed out overview of an art installation showcasing photo prints on uniquely made concrete slabs that are rectangular with a hole in them.
A disintegrated photo print with its image barely discernible, much of it is covered in grey dust, leaving only the sky a pale lilac blue.
A crumpled photo print with its image surface in ruins after being submerged in water for some time and then dried and displayed on a concrete slab.
A poetic and mysterious photo print with its image completely dissolved except for floating blue chemical remnants of what was once a picture.
A ruined photo print that looks like an old relic, where the image is completely erased, leaving only an empty print upon a print with a dark band running through its center.
A very crumpled and shrunken photo print that has been separated and only its topmost plastic layer is displayed like a flaccid skin.
A photo print in a state of disintegration and severe wear and tear, showing a rip in the center and erasure marks on either side.
Close-up of a devastated photo print in which the picture surface is completely ruined, leaving a mouldy-looking band in the middle.
Close-up of a photo print of what was once a landscape image, but now its composition is broken up into fragments like glass shards.
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