Merilyn Fairskye, March (2014, detail), video still; courtesy of the artist.
We have all heard the adages, ‘a picture tells a thousand words’ and ‘a camera cannot lie’, but how do such popular beliefs translate to contemporary image-making, be it photography, film or the grey ground in between?
This topic was key at a conference presented by the University of Sydney’s College of Arts (SCA) over the weekend, which placed international cultural theorists alongside philosophers and practising artists in an attempt to unpack where ‘truth’ lies in the bombardment of images that we face.
