David Maisel’s large-scaled, otherworldly photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, piecing together the fractured logic that informs them both. His series History’s Shadow consists of re-photographed x-rays of art objects from antiquity.
“I have culled these x-rays from museum archives, which utilise them for conservation purposes. Through the x-ray process, the artworks of origin become de-familiarised and de-contextualised, yet acutely alive and renewed.”
