THERE THE DANCE IS

Jenny Tomlin, Alex Lindesay

6 - 21 June 2025

This exhibition is part of the 2025 Auckland Festival of Photography

Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s ‘The Poetics Of Space’ and the themes from the chapter Intimate Immensity ‘There the dance is’ explores elements connected to pinhole photography and poetry.

Jenny Tomlin’s process based practice focuses on seeing the world through various pinhole cameras that she creates. She sees these as imagination machines, often showing what looks like energy or other versions of reality.

Alex Lindesay’s poetry explores themes of light and time which are also key factors in the pinhole process.

Together, both artists worked with a camera obscura, in this case a hydroponic tent with multiple openings that could be adjusted to show multiple fragments of the world outside. This resulted in grid works Garden Obscura works 1 and 2 as well as a mural photogram inside the camera obscura.

The light installation was conceived of to show an element of the process and conceptually combine the two artists work. The colour acetate slide shows the bones of the camera obscura used to create the work Intimate Immensity. Viewers are invited to play with the acetate poems creating multiple outcomes.

Jenny Tomlin

Corporeal Being. 2025

Photogram self portrait inside camera obscura tent

Silver gelatin resin mural negative

76x160cm, Unique

NZD $1,900 incl.GST enquire

Alex Lindesay, Jenny Tomlin

Intimate Immensity, 2025

Interactive light installation using overhead projector

and acetate slides

Not for sale

Each photographic print is accompanied by a poem of your choice, printed on A5 Japanese rice paper, offering an integrated experience of image and text. Framing is available for all works.