“IT’S a puzzling feeling when you wake from a dream and the flashback elements don’t make sense,” says artist Josie Cosgrove, whose exhibition, “Unconscious Mind” opens this week in Manuka.
Cosgrove blends studio and location photography using Photoshop to create “epic surreal images that evoke the connection between dreams and real personal experience.”
She says her photo composites are inspired by her own innermost thoughts and dreams but can also be interpreted by viewers.
A Ku-Klux Klan figure holds up a goat at gunpoint. A little girl holding her teddy is sucked up into the light opening of a UFO spaceship. Where is she going?
Emulating surrealists like Dali or Magritte, she uses digital techniques allow her to amalgamate present reality and otherworldliness, creating what she calls a “warped world.”
“Unconscious Mind” by Josie Cosgrove, at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 19 Furneaux Street, Manuka, Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm until Sunday, September 23.
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