The pinched lips of seven cloned Margaret Thatchers smile unnaturally in unison, eyes fixed narrowly. Although a Thatcher far from her 1970s heyday, her rigid, manic expression is unchanged. Each portrait is almost identical, her manner performative, her gaze unflinching. …
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Lisa Barnard’s photographs are empty stages awaiting actors to enter through the myriad doors, emerge from behind spectral blue curtains, or even to appear hologram-like through a blank screen or a gaping rent in a wall.
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Lisa Barnard’s complicated and intriguing multimedia project Virtual Iraq is an exploration of just how far the possibilities for recruitment, training and post trauma treatment, through the use of virtual reality, have been developed in the USA.
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Published in the Observer in July 2007, this is a review of the exhibition Theatres of War, curated by Mark Power at the Oskar Schindler factory in Krakow, Poland, part of the main programme of Krakow Photomonth 2007.
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At first glance it is a simple picture. A number of paths, nestling between two modest hills, disappear into the far distance. The light is flat and uninteresting, the sky blank. Yet there is something odd about it. The scale …
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The title chosen for this arresting body of work is as taut, condensed and suggestive as the images themselves.  In post-Kleinian psychoanalytic thought, specifically that of Wilfred Bion, PS<->D denotes the constantly operating forward thrust and regressive pull of two …
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