We tend to think of photographs as moments held still. Light captured, time suspended, a fragment of the world preserved within a frame.

But what happens when a photograph no longer remains still?

 

Unfixing Horizons is a spatial installation that explores how photography can move beyond the fixed image, taking on new forms through sound, material, light, and movement.

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The work begins with a sunset. As the changing light is captured by a camera, its visual information is translated into sound. Shifts in brightness and colour become tones, allowing the gradual transformation of the sky to unfold as an evolving soundscape.

These sounds are subsequently transformed into spectrograms: visual traces of their frequencies over time.

Printed onto transparent surfaces, they become physical objects that bend, fold, and hang from a suspended network of threads.

What began as light becomes sound, then image, then sculpture.

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Within the installation, these photographic surfaces overlap and respond to gravity. Light passes through them, casting shadows and revealing new relationships between their layers. As visitors move around the work, perspectives shift, images merge, and details appear or disappear.

The photograph is no longer something encountered from a single viewpoint. It becomes something to move around, look through, and experience in relation to one’s own body.

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Unfixing Horizons explores photography not as a fixed representation of the world, but as an ongoing process of transformation. Each transition introduces new possibilities while leaving something of the previous form behind.

The installation invites visitors to consider what an image can become when it is allowed to move beyond its original boundaries.

 

Perhaps a photograph is never entirely still.

Perhaps it is something we encounter, rather than something we possess.