- Title
- Tracing and erasure in Kathryn Smith's Psychogeographies: the washing away of wrongs
- Creator
- de Jager, Maureen
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147413
- Identifier
- vital:38634
- Identifier
- https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC31057
- Description
- Kathryn Smith's Psychogeographies: The Washing Away of Wrongs is a series of twelve prints comprising photographs and handwritten text, wherein she records her 'pilgrimage' to the former homes of British serial killer Dennis Nilsen. As such, it utilises photographic and autographic traces to 'track' the elusive traces left by Nilsen. Given the lapse of two decades between Nilsen's arrest and Smith's visit, the traces of Nilsen's 'wrongs' seem all but erased by the banal façade of suburban living which has continued on, regardless. In taking this as a starting point, the following article considers the motif of absence that characterises Smith's work as intrinsic to traces per se.
- Format
- 19 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- de arte
- Relation
- De Jager, M., 2008. Tracing and erasure in Kathryn Smith's Psychogeographies: the washing away of wrongs. de arte, 43(78), pp.33-51.
- Relation
- de arte volume 43 number 78 33 51 January 2008 0004-3389
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