In the shadow

Fiona Candy
5 years ago

"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is." C.G. Jung, 1938.

Images envisioning psychological theories of 'the shadow'.

Exhibited at University of Central Lancashire, PR1 2HE, from 1st - 31st of May, 2018. 

Excerpt from exhibition information sheet: 

“...I interpreted the photographic portraits and their vintage aesthetic, as links to past lives, including to women's experiences of war and the period of optimism and creativity that followed. Using Photoshop technique, I added and altered, to juxtapose time in surreal, seamless montage. I drew on other Jungian archetypes as well as the shadow, such as: the 'apocalypse’, ‘heroine’, ‘trickster’, ‘mother’, ‘maiden’, ‘persona’. Jung suggested that archetypes are inherited potentials: universal patterns, or models of people, behaviour, personality, that can be activated in the psyche.

Visualising the ambiguous presence of the shadow side, opens up perceptions of its existence not just within individuals, but on an exponential scale within contemporary cultural phenomena. Social media, News, Big Data, surveillance, democracy, globalisation, consumerism, are dynamic, mass channels where the collective unconscious is both active and susceptible…”