Kiah
Pullens

Melbourne-based artist Kiah Pullens primarily works with large scale analogue photography and integrates the photographic with installation. Pullens re-energises archival images through the performative gestures of hand printing in the darkroom. Inserting her own body into the image making process, Pullens is interested in the performance she instills in her photographs and how people navigate them. Her works are composed of images sourced from an array of Australian and artistic histories and her curiosity lies within the cut of the image. Tightly cropped segments of the re-photographed body re-situate the figure into large scale immersive, photographic installations. The hand printed panels question how we see and experience photography.