Emerging Photographer of the Year | Elyse Longair: Picturing The Infrathin

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Elyse Longair, “After The Anthropocene,” 2020

collage, 36x26 (courtesy of the artist)

Exposure’s 2023 Emerging Photographer of the Year award recipient Elyse Longair will be presenting her solo show Picturing The Infrathin.

Marcel Duchamp suggests that the immeasurable gap, “the possible implying becoming — the passage from one to the other takes place in the infrathin”. Elyse Longair’s exhibition, Picturing the Infrathin, evokes Duchamp’s concept of the infrathin through collage with a specific focus on her flat seamless aesthetic where the thin space or gap between image fragments approaches (in)visibility. Each collage is created similarly: embracing subtly and carefully composed using a limited number of image fragments from her archive of popular knowledge source material, predominantly National Geographic magazine images from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Her work is durational, as Longair may wait years to find a near seamless and logical image match. In this infrathin space she creates, the viewer can imagine freely the possibility of the image, and the roles of picture making and imagination.