Tim Willcocks
Inanimate Reason
The artificial body personifies the non living, given life. Von Kempelen’s automaton ‘Chess Player’ concealed a human operator. Maerterlinck’s actors played marionettes, playing characters. In a clear analogy with postmemory, the non living influence the living, who in turn influence the dead.
‘Inanimate Reason’ presents surreal photographs showing (often) self-portraits- as-marionette to reference postmemory, memory, experience, made surreal by using a pinhole process to imply the subconscious, and realised as cinematic format photographic prints. Dark yet playful, sometimes difficult to look at, the images form a narrative examining the forces of memory upon the artist, and by proxy, the viewer.
Tim Willcocks is a photographer working with analogue and digital media, which is frequently process driven.
The themes of memory, postmemory, place, and conversations across time influence Tim’s thinking and work, which is often presented in a subtly surreal way.
Tim trained as a photographer at the Medway College of Design, and has worked as a commercial portrait photographer. Tim graduates from the University of Brighton with a Masters degree in Photography in 2023.
Contact Tim Willcocks
- tim@timwillcocks.com
- Website
- https://www.timwillcocks.com