A Measure of Uncertainty

Curator’s Statement

Through the breadth of our experiences, we all navigate life with measures of uncertainty. The current moment of history feels particularly untethered, with waves of extremity challenging the tenuous structures we use to frame our external and internal realities. Inundated with information, we accumulate anxieties and fantasies of so many unknowns. Adversities and opportunities swell with the potential of transformation.

Technical and unpredictable, photography is a medium that lends itself to the transformative possibilities of uncertainty. Time, motion, light, perspective, scale, sensors, chemistry: these are the measurable yet mutable substances of the photographic process. Each of the photographs
in this exhibition distills a particular instance of uncertainty, whether exposed, captured, or created. The wide variety of imagery includes scenes of people in motion through ambiguous spaces, objects of undetermined function, and dizzying perspectives of scenes both alien and familiar.

The BAPC artists employ a range of artistic approaches to tap into photography’s unique relationship with both truth and fiction, from straight documentation to juxtaposition, intervention, and fabrication. Together, their work creates a chorus of photographic perspectives exploring the edges of meaning, inviting open-ended interpretation, and moving in tandem towards the sublime.