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The Correction exists within a broader, ongoing series of projects by the collective F4. Growing from the long-term artistic collaboration between Susan Jowsey and Marcus Williams (15 years) F4 is a conceptual and structural response to the introduction of children into this partnership. The intersubjectivity of collaboration, the mediated nature of socialization in contemporary culture and the implications of power relations in these contexts remain broad themes within the collaborative model. Familial relationships and the investigation of representations of family have become particular.

Ideas are developed and cultivated overtime with specific attention paid to conceptual and visual potential inherent in the prolific creative gestures generated by both children in their everyday play. These can play out through multiple iterations, which may at one time be championed by, one or other of the adults, but always remain the intellectual property of the collective. This is a fair description of the conceptual origin for The Correction.

The Correction is a new work from one project within this collaborative milieu, which specifically explores power and vulnerability across gender and generation, within the family. A slippage in the normal allocation of authority and/or innocence is alluded to in a deliberate exploitation of the conventions of portraiture.

The Correction
F4 collective
Photographic Diptych
Light Jet prints, Die-Bond mounted
1500mm X 600mm
$2200