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Jesse Boyd-Reid (AU)

The Gift

Image: Jesse Boyd-Reid, from the series [The Gift], 2020. Courtesy the artist.

Image: Jesse Boyd-Reid, from the series The Gift, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

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Central

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Intimacy, family, spirituality and connection find allegorical form in the photography of Melbourne-based artist, Jesse Boyd-Reid. Merging candid documentation with constructed scenarios, Boyd-Reid explores relationships between the self, family and the environment.

Boyd-Reid’s large-scale work The Gift is a reflection on the ways that community and connection enrich our lives. Lines are deliberately blurred to indicate togetherness, and the shifting nature of beliefs around culture, spirituality, sexuality, intimacy and connection to place. This is a realm where ordinary objects act as both images of themselves, and symbols of the rituals that nourish and sustain us.

Commissioned by Photo Australia and the Metro Tunnel Creative Program for PHOTO 2021

On display from 18 February 2021

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PHOTO Australia respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands upon which we work and live, and the rich and diverse Indigenous cultures across what is now called Australia. For over 60,000 years, Indigenous arts and culture have thrived on this sacred land, and we honour Elders and cultural leaders past and present. This was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

06–29 March