LEYLA STEVENS

Leyla Stevens

Leyla Stevens，SAFE PASSAGE， AIR project at Cemeti Art House Yogyakarta，2013

Leyla Stevens，Signalmasters，Installation documentation, NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace Sydney 2014; Aircraft Signal(2011) Pigment Print on Cotton Rag, 42x38cm; Portrait of the Artist’s Grandfather circa 1946 (2013), Pigment Print on Cotton Rag, 30x38cm; Signalmasters II, two channel video projection, 3:40 loop.

Leyla Stevens，THEIR SEA IS ALWAYS HUNGRY，2019

Kidung/Lament (2019)
3 Channel video installation, stereo sound, 10:58 minutes.
Performer: Cok Sawitri
Production Assistance: Wayan Martino
Camera Operator: Wayan Martino,
Leyla Stevens
Camera Assistance: Medy Mahasena
Audio Mastering: Tim Bruniges
Editing: Leyla Stevens

rites for the missing (2019)
2 Channel video, 12:20 minutes.
Performers: Ninus &
Kadek Intan Kirana Sari
Production Assistance: Wayan Martino
Camera Operators: Wayan Martino, Leyla Stevens & Prema Ananda
Editing: Leyla Stevens

A Line in the Sea (2019) 3 Channel video, stereo sound, 9:45 minutes.
Performers: Bonne Gea &
Dhea Natasya
Camera Operators: Wayan Martino, Leyla Stevens
Camera Assistance: Medy Mahasena
Water camera operator: Paul Baker
Sound Design: Tim Bruniges

Leyla Stevens，WONG SAMAR， HD digital video, stereo sound, 5:17mins，2016

"I want to say that since I did this work, my approach has evolved because it provides me with a research method that can make family history alternate in its placement on a larger scale. But I don't need to consider the reader's question and show the significance of this work to the Australian audience. Making the screen a documentary-style gives me a space to subvert this perfectly Types (documentaries), and hope to make all readers switch from "exotic glasses" to a more attractive and powerful reception method. "

-Leyla Stevens

Regarding documentary photography, one of the most challenging ways for one person is: how to make viewers who do not have a similar experience better understand the work, most artworks are selfish, and it is a witness for documentary photography. This is an essential part of cultural history. It can be said that there is no mistake at all, but on the standpoint of absolute meaning, art does not have complete objectivity, nor documentary photography. Photography is just a medium for the masses to produce. It is a medium of resonance and cognition, a medium of transmission and recording of culture, so how can it make most viewers resonate with the "facts" that are not objective?

Honestly, for Leyla Stevens's work, I feel no less than a little resonance. Although I have read her materials and speeches, the selfish fact maybe because I did not personally be in the exhibition hall. Perceiving the effects of her work, or perhaps her concept and form did not make me realize the shock so that it may be regrettable for people, I don't know what kind of grand should I use The virtual concept combined with its background (+ installation + experiment) may obtain a lot of so-called "photographic artist" arrangements. Still, compared to the ordinary Australian viewers, they can know that period. Does significant family history and significance? Do we need to rethink what it means to us? "In Magnum's history, we are not only good at seeing what we saw but also the angle at which we saw it." Within a hundred years, Magnum photographers have created the god of documentary photography Altar. Still, I can't see the extreme, the humour, the desire, the absolute in Leyla Stevens, but in the speech, I realized the "self-confidence" of a photography artist.

"I started thinking about where I am in the world, and the separation between the subject and the life of the person gave me too much pressure."

-Sorab He Pull

Perhaps on the stage of documentary photography history, there is no need for a temporary audience.

What makes art more art?

https://peril.com.au/topics/arts/performing-gestures-an-interview-with-leyla-stevens/

https://leylastevens.com/Wong-Samar

https://leylastevens.com/Their-Sea-is-Always-Hungry

https://leylastevens.com/Signalmasters

https://leylastevens.com/Safe-Passage

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