The Lunatic
Henry Trumble
28 Mar–14 Apr 2018
“The real question was not in the moons, but in himself.”
1Q84, Haruki Murakami.
The Lunatic was a body of work by Henry Trumble about the images we construct and carry within us that create our perception of the universe. The exhibition presented a series of photographic objects, such as contact prints exposed by the light of the moon and the restaging of a chance encounter with a pool of planetary particles.
The project drew from the narrative of Haruki Murakami’s dystopian novel 1Q84, whose protagonists find themselves in a parallel universe in which two moons hang in the sky and become an important placeholder for their own (new) reality.
The Lunatic was a body of work by Henry Trumble about the images we construct and carry within us that create our perception of the universe.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Henry Trumble is an Australian photographer. Photography fills most of his waking moments. His process is his purpose as he works with traditional and contemporary methods. Henry's lens captures how he sees and what he finds with an eye for the absurdity in life.
Henry works with the best marketing agencies, art galleries, architecture studios and designers. Collaboration is one of his driving forces and he’s inspired by the dynamic nature of photography to simultaneously capture reality and turn it on its head.
Henry holds a Bachelor of Visual Communications from The University of South Australia and completed the Photography Intensive at Columbia University in New York in 2013. He has since spent three years living and working in Berlin. Henry is currently working on projects in Melbourne, Australia.