In Are we getting close to something, Kieran Butler and Katherine Rooke seek to understand the current status of photography through a navigation of the manifold notions of distance, both physical and metaphysical, within the photographic. Butler and Rooke meditate upon the ways in which photography has the ability to create, bridge or blur the distance between image and object, material and immaterial, analogue and digital. Through the acts of photographic production, reproduction, multiplication and manipulation, the ability to perceive distance becomes distorted. This photographic distortion of proximity and distance mirrors the act of production itself, and the nature of art-making; Butler and Rooke find themselves constantly doing a double take, reassessing the distances reached and the distances that become greater. They repeatedly ask themselves: Are we getting close to something?

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