Close Up: Nge Lay's
Me and Another Process (2008-2009)
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Bathed in a diffuse red-and-orange glow, a pair of hands gently cups a glowing ball of light. The light is a subtle thing, expanding outwards from the palms and through the gaps between the fingers, casting the hands in a translucent glow. Me and Another Process (2008–2009) is an enigmatic and unsettling work. Comprising five close-up shots of human hands, the photographs convey anything but familiarity. Flesh glows as if lit from within, rendered seemingly luminous. The sense of uneasiness hinges on the disconnect between our experience of the body as tangible and opaque, versus the ghostly appearance of the images. The zoomed-in composition, with hands pictured in extreme close-up, further alienates the viewer by presenting the hands as disconcertingly large. With each photograph printed at 91.4 x 121.9 cm, the hands are larger-than-life and vastly out of proportion, looming out of the darkness and reaching into our world. Even as we may be inclined to project our experiences upon a familiar figure, our desire to do so is frustrated by its strangeness.
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