It's not the end of the world | Laurel Johannesson

"It's not the end of the world" explores physical tension and the psyche through photographic-based collages that alter coastlines and beaches into limbo-like spaces.

In the exhibition "It's not the end of the world", AUArts Professor, Drawing Laurel Johannesson explores physical tension and the psyche through photographic-based collages that alter coastlines and beaches into limbo-like spaces. Her work often takes place in or around water in site-specific locations and depicts uncanny juxtapositions between body and nature, realism and dream.

Within her images, Johannesson reinterprets our understanding of what it means to inhabit a liminal space and how photography can break down the barriers of physical reality in favour of a psychological landscape. Her current series, 'Situations,' reveals figures in various poses in remote landscapes that veer between dream, myth, and memory. The remote landscapes offer a stage to address the relationships between possibility and limitation, solitude and expanse. The images evoke a sense of displacement and a desire to find a resting place in a world that seems increasingly fractured by anxiety and uncertainty. 

This exhibition is part of Exposure Photography Festival 2022