Caroline Douglas
,-2010.JPG "Playboy Entertainment for Men, Braille Edition June 1996 (in collaboration with Rosita McKenzie), 2010")
“There remains a difference between reading a book and looking at pictures.”
The Attorney General’s commission on Pornography - The Messe Commission (Washington DC: US Government, 1986)
This work interrogates issues of accessibility in the visual arts. On one level, it fosters a dynamic which captures the 'female' touch reading the sighted 'male' gaze. As such, it challenges perceptions of both blindness and femininity. The piece also aims to facilitate a dialectic between touch and the spoken word; seeing and projected fantasy; and text and image. The work is inherently reciprocal, as both the sighted viewer and Braille reader work in collaboration - each relying on the other to create and complete the work.
Caroline Douglas graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2006 and Glasgow School of Art (MFA) in 2010. She was artist in residence at the Stills Gallery in 2008, the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2009, Fondazione Fotografia in Modena in 2010 and Proekt Fabrika in Moscow in 2011. She has exhibited widely internationally. She was also the recipient of the 9th Helen Keller International Award in 2011.
www.carolinedouglasphotography.co.uk