JACQUELINE FRASER

“THE MAKING OF LA DOLCE VITA 2011” is a series of imaginary collage publicity shots as if Federico Fellini were re-making “La Dolce Vita” in 2011. The people are living in “La Dolce Vita” according to Jacqueline Fraser’s perverse vision. Each has a little mystery never quite revealed. A night time world in another Rome half imagined. Larger than life.

“THE MAKING OF LA DOLCE VITA 2011” consists of three giant LED light boxes and eight smaller ones set in a dark gallery. Fraser has chosen this technology to give a glow to the luminous mystique of the collages and illuminate their subtle details. The collages are camera copied to film at high resolution so even a blurred face is sharp when enlarged many times. This retains the intensity of the original tiny collages.

Fraser began scanning found images when she was living in Paris in 2004. Paris is a visual overload with stylish billboards, pulsating digital screens, and glamorous European magazines. Even internet images originating in Paris are the best. Fraser was hooked. Since then she has compulsively made collages, scanning images to jpegs. She has used found images in her last four exhibitions at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, both in installations and printed as backlit photos with fabric collage.