Rebecca and Vivian share an interest in what it means to make photographic images today – questioning the representationalism of the “world-as-subject.” Eschewing the act of making photographs of the world they explore the possibilities of making photographs with the world. Their work promotes an integrated non-hierarchical approach to image-making where the photographic materials, camera, photographer and subject matter are active participants.

Interference Pattern brings the work of these two artists together through a diffractive methodology. Borrowed from the scientific feminism of Karen Barad, diffractive methodology measures “interference patterns” – the effects of difference rather than the differences themselves. Like intersecting ripples made by two rocks thrown into a pond, these differences interact – some intensifying and some negating the other. This exhibition maps “patterns of differentiating-entangling,” the effects of two artists working in complementary and contrasting ways, and opens up possibilities for new materialist pathways through photography.