SITUATE / Monday 27 January to Sunday 12 April 2020 (Residency dates affected by COVID-19)
Alice Duncan is the recipient of a 2020 Graduate Residency Award at RMIT Intersect’s SITUATE studios located in Melbourne.
Alice Duncan is a jack-of-all trades currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. Strongly rooted in analogue photography, Alice’s practice revolves around the photograph as an index and as an object to recall and create memory. Her photographs are an investigation into society’s reliance on photography to represent the ‘real’ or as evidence of an event; a reliance that has caused people to mistake photography with the act of seeing.
Alice’s images expose the multifaceted, ever-changing and (most importantly) constructed nature of our personal and cultural identities. Her work challenges preconceived constructs of place and identity and their relationship with our ever-shifting socio-political climates.
By taking and defacing, tearing or scratching photographs of the Australian landscape, Alice creates irreparable scars on the surface of the image. These deliberate fissures allude to the erasure of Australian indigenous histories in contemporary society.
This 2020 Graduate Residency Award is generously supported by the RMIT School of Art.