A playful collection reflecting on themes of childhood and human fragility by photographer Emmaline Zanelli. Zanelli lives in Tarntanya/Adelaide on the unceded lands of Kaurna Nation. Her work typically combines pictures, video, set constructing, costume and efficiency to create scenes each humorous and surreal. The title, “Semaphore,” alludes to the seaside suburb through which Zanelli spent her childhood and youth:
“This was the place I performed my very first experiments facilitated by my mum, the place weekends had been spent constructing worlds on the lounge flooring with the furnishings pushed again, blankets laid down, trays of dried legumes and bubbly dishwater, rising crystals and laying marble tracks.”
Semaphore can also be a reference to the marine visible communication system that makes use of flags to convey data between distant factors. The photographs on this collection equally perform as an idiosyncratic language, with their very own syntax of gesture, scale and color. The assembled objects draw on associations to convey concepts round fertility, eroticism, uncertainty, phantasm, and collectively mirror the play and experimentation of childhood. Extra photos beneath.