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The Photographs of Dominic Rouse

November 17 – January 12, 2008
in the garage street level gallery

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.
Dreams are a reality that open windows onto a mystery.

Dominic Rouse, a contemporary digital photographer from England – now living in Thailand, likes to make images where illusion and reality overlap. His photographs put him in aesthetic relationship to Magritte, Dali, Ernst, Uelsmann, Arthur Tress and Maggie Taylor who are also surreal artists whose images are entertaining, visually dramatic and dream-like.

Rouse's photographs are technically accomplished and invite us, even compel us, into his vivid imagination where he addresses emotional interiors such as love and loss, meaning and chaos, life and death, fears and desires, and religion and superstition. His images, rich in hypnotic hauntings, have somber tones and dark undertows. He works the relationship of Spirit to Flesh. His erotic images are mysteriously beautiful but he can also be a spiritual scare-maker.

Sometimes his illusory, staged vision makes us feel like he is a magician hiding tricks up his sleeve and at other moments he is Freud's stage director making representations of unconscious universal fantasies.

Often, the answer to a question is a better question. There is no doubt, Rouse's beautifully executed photographs will leave you questioning.

—Keith Auerbach, Pyro Gallery, November 2008

To see more work by Dominic Rouse, please visit Pyro Gallery next door to 21c Museum at 624 W Main St, Louisville KY. The exhibition at Pyro Gallery will remain open until December 27.

Exhibited Works

• Under construction, 2005. Archival Epson Ultrachrome K3 Pigment Ink Print.
• Reasons for attendance, 2006. Archival Epson Ultrachrome K3 Pigment Ink Print.
• The cunning of unreason, 2005. Archival Epson Ultrachrome K3 Pigment Ink Print.
• To be or not to be, 2000. Toned Silver Gelatin Print.
• Man eaten alive by chest of drawers whilst searching for a missing sock, 1996. Toned Silver Gelatin Print.
• Ecce Homo, 2002. Archival Epson Ultrachrome K3 Pigment Ink Print.
• Vacancy, 2005. Archival Epson Ultrachrome K3 Pigment Ink Print.
• Angeline, 2002. Archival Epson Ultrachrome K3 Pigment Ink Print.
• Dance for no-one, 2001. Archival Epson Ultrachrome K3 Pigment Ink Print.
• Come to mother, 2000. Toned Silver Gelatin Print.
• Don't walk away Rene, 2001. Toned Silver Gelatin Print.

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