Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo and Recent Group Exhibitions, Curatorial Projects, Artist Residencies, Collections, Education, Reviews, and Images

The "Natura" series are black & white photographs of simple objects taken from life and grouped together according to generic identity. These pictures are left untitled. However, brief, parenthetical descriptions accompany each photograph, for example: "Untitled (feathers)."

This conceit is effective because it reinforces the "objectivity" that is part of the show's Conceptual grounding. While all the photographs in this series are aesthetically pleasing, they also suggest the sort of documentation that is common in the natural sciences. One is reminded of those photographic plates seen in encyclopedias, although some of these things, such as the white pine needles, are virtually identical to each other and therefore this particular photograph undermines the suggestion of documentation in this sense.

What is interesting about the photographs in this series, as indeed with all the pictures in this show, is how they balance formal and Conceptual concerns. Broches is well aware of the Conceptual uses to which photography has been put over the past 40 years or so. Her new work involves the recognition that photography not only enables us to capture, in this case, the subtle beauty of the natural world around us, it also amply demonstrates how its formal usage is inseparable from the ideas that we have about photography itself.