The Gallery of Impermanent Things is concerned with the temporary, transitory nature of existence. For the exhibition I invited participants to be videoed while speaking to them about the nature of photography and impermanence. The video was projected against a phosphorescent recording surface. As the moving image was being “burned” into the recording surface over several minutes, the portrait is blurred by any motion. The resultant images quickly fade, evoking the transient nature of memory.

The exhibition was held as part of the Proximity Festival at PICA, the Perth Centre for Contemporary Arts in October 2013. The Proximity Festival is a one-on-one performance art festival curated by James Berlyn and Sarah Rowbottam. Over 150 participants took part over the course of the festival. Documentation photographs by Fionn Mulholland