
Drinking from the Eye
- Publisher
- Perimeter Editions
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-1-922545-17-6
- Specifications
- Section-sewn hardcover
28 x 20.8 cm
56 pages
Co-published with Photo Australia
PHOTO Editions series
Drinking from the Eye is the first photobook by Australian artists Honey Long and Prue Stent, and the third in the PHOTO Editions series. Commissioned by Photo Australia for PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography, it takes the form of an abstracted visual diary, presenting a combination of constructed photographs and detail shots that emphasise the artists' attention to form, texture and material. Long and Stent have worked together for ten years, developing a practice that traverses photography, moving image, performance, installation and sculpture. Their art is grounded in experimentation between bodies, materials and environments, and creates a space for the animate versus inanimate — the human and other — to interweave. Often referencing historical representations of the female subject, Long and Stent distort and fragment their bodies, creating creaturely hybrids in a constant state of becoming and flux.