Six Color Transparencies
SIX COLOR TRANSPARENCIES, 2007/2011
Six digital color photographs, 76.2 cm x 101.6 cm
Dibond with face-in non-glossy Plexiglas
"Can you take a color photograph of pure color and achieve something that even approaches the original? Only if you take a “bad” photograph, according to Pavlović. Appearances are deceiving in Six Color Transparencies, a group of solid color photographs representing Pavlović's investigation of the photograph as object. Decidedly her most minimal work, here the surface and physical properties of the photographs are key. Pavlović achieves her saturated tones by purposefully blurring the image, effectively erasing what grain might show up in print while negating photography’s usual intent of objectivity. It is a strange inversion as the final photographs are truer representations of the actual subject (color) than can be achieved with the most expert of techniques. For the installation at Lawrimore Project, Pavlović uses a gallery window as a filter, and photo-grey painted gallery wall exposing the friction between the medium of representation, black and white and color photography, objecthood and the conditions of viewing.” Scott Lawrimore and Yoko Ott, “Patch Dynamics - Six New Invasions to the Field", Lawrimore Project Gallery, Seattle, 2009.
