Isabella Hin

How does she find her way through a slumbering neighbourhood that’s missing and losing its identity, to give meaning to her route, or to rediscover it? Isabella Hin offers a very personal answer, bringing us back to earlier photographic challenges and to the continuing desire for images that also mark the refusal of its subjects, with the principle of reality always required as part of its creation.  Thus, in roaming and painstakingly gathering “paintings”, the photographer actually develops her images by composition and differing viewpoints. With a delicacy reminiscent of watercolour paintings, white graffiti punctures the expanses of mixed hues, big brush strokes, trapping the light, optical illusions in space and - most importantly - immersion as much in the colour as in the subject matter of the image. But the colour, here to encourage us to take the time to look at it, is not exuberant or joyful - rather it is strongly marked by time, underlining the decay, the erosion and the extreme fragility whereby photography questions the very notion of beauty and its conventions.