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Indepth Arts News:
"Caroline Rye: The Turin Machine"
1999-09-10 until 1999-09-19
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh, ,
UK United Kingdom
The Turin Machine is a performance/installation which uses a giant
pinhole camera to create life-size photographic portraits of the artist.
During the exhibition the audience enters the camera to view the process of
exposure and thus witness the act of taking a photograph.
The work occurs over a number of days, each day resulting in the exposure
of a picture or “shroud”. These cloths are then developed and exhibited as
evidence of a reality. The origins of this work lie in recently conducted
research into the possible manufacture of the Turin Shroud.
It has been suggested that the shroud is a medieval forgery made using
early optical and alchemical technology - namely a pinhole camera and a
cloth coated with light sensitive chemicals. If this is the case then the
Turin Shroud is, in fact, the first photograph.
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