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It wasn't a dream...
It wasn't a dream...
It Was a Flood
- Frank Stanford (Film Director)
Tracey Snelling's work uses documentation, anachronism and the feeling of estrangement as a symbolic resource to represent her experience with each place she visits. But sometimes, the recall of her memory and imagination intervene with the new scenes and suddenly seem like self-reflections of the soul or pure metaphysics. These isolated scenes sometimes remind me of Frank Stanford's film “It wasn't a dream, It Was a Flood”, for its surreal nuance and the fine line between reality and unreality, but also for the repressed sexual desires suggested by ontological voyeurism, that also characterizes Snelling's work through images or videos set to views of cities, fields, buildings, dens, etc.
More than a documentation, Snelling's work is a mental construction of a re-thinking of identity, which is endlessly changing up to the here and now . Like Stanford, Tracey seems to explore the so-called swamprat Rimbaud […] [a] redneck surrealist. "Reproducing" reality and converting it models or maquettes is an act of locating where we are, who we are and what we represent when we are seen from the outside, either by someone else or from the outskirts of our own consciousness.
For Tracey, the shape is never a static container for its content. Through her formal choices, her narrative poems project a refracted vision of existence, where there is always a factor that breaks the "tranquility of the scene." Tracey wasn’t dreaming… something beyond made her swim between reality and the unreal.
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Tracey Snelling, Berlin, 2001
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Tracey Snelling, Big Blackwater, 2006
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Tracey Snelling, Drift, 2017
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Tracey Snelling, Dude’s Room, Girl’s Room, 2017
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Tracey Snelling, Emmanuel Church of God, Happy Spa, Disco Christmas Living Room, 2017
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Tracey SnellingHouse of Horrors, 2013Mixed Media38 x 26 x 3 in
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Tracey SnellingFlag Sale, 2005Type c print7.5 x 13 in
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Tracey SnellingHouse on the Hill, 2013Mixed Media23 x 24 x 19 in
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Tracey Snelling, Sunset Boulevard, 2005
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Tracey Snelling, Tattoo Shop, 2019
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