Again, Someplace Else... (Still, a Breath, a Gasp)
Installation Art | Performance | Photography, 1992–1994. Polaroid photographs, a 1960s Polaroid Land Camera, steel pins, diagrams, space, time, three women, and performance
Performance events in which groupings of Polaroid Photographs are shot and processed to create a series of installations, which are reconfigured in each new venue. This work was shown in New York including two group exhibitions which contextualized Daly's work within emerging fields: at White Columns, in the five person exhibition Photography in an Expanded Field (curator Bill Arning, Director), and in Figure Out, a four person show atTrial Balloon Gallery, New York (curated by Nicola Tyson, Director). It was also shown at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program 1994 Studio Fellow Exhibition. Installation views: Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Exhibition. To create this work Daly performatively photographed close-ups of the body, of herself, her mother, and a friend. With the 1960s Polaroid Land camera, the viewfinder was useless at this close range, and the artist used the camera as an extension of her body to create these images.The work investigates the paradoxes of language and the unconscious, with interest in the fictions of the subject, shifting identities, performing the subject; and the boundary between self and loved ones (mother and daughter; artist and friend). Configurations of Polaroids of a single part of the body were photographed again and again, with body parts shifting between frames creating a tension between movement and stasis in this work, with leaking edges; an archive that can't contain its subject.
