Ami Barnes

Exhibiting from 21^st October – 18^th November

at University of Derby,

Ami asked each person what their ideal first date was, and together they set up and lived through the date they had suggested. The process was photographed throughout with both of them working to create a photographic record of their meeting, using a remote to share control of the shutter.

As a result it is frequently uncertain as to who has control at any one moment, blurring the line between photographer and model, artist and art. Equally ambiguous is line between the real and the false; the interactions are on one level performed for the camera, (and indeed, only exist to be photographed), but they also become part of both my own and the six collaborators’ lived realities.