Julie Read 'Superficial or Inherent� (exhibition runs until 11th October) Street Level Photoworks, 26, King Street, Glasgow. Tues - Sat. 10am - 5pm
Julie Read's work is based on common but fascinating themes: ideas of existence; who we are and what makes us different from one another. This UK premiere of a new and varied show, sees several media deployed � digital drawings, photography, computer animation � which intrigue and encourage the viewer to draw upon their personal interpretations fully engage in the work.
Digital drawings interpret various individual�s navel casts, delicate lines carefully follow the birth chord from where it�s cutting at birth marks the beginning of a new individual taking its first breath. The use of a 'cold� digital medium depersonalises the viewer from this very intimate area of the body, which in these drawings are explored as transparent layers which build up to the 3 dimensional form using tones that would correspond to the representation of topography of land on ordinance survey maps.
Shown alongside these drawings are photographs of embossed skin, describing the people whose navels are illustrated. The skin is embossed with information typically requested in passport applications, and the artist is interested in the notion that none of this information actually gives us a realistic indication of that person�s true identity. In Gallery 2 the viewer stands within projected digital animations of two navels which pulse in and out with the breathing of the individuals.
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