Crash Markers

2005-08
C-Print
121.9 x 164.7cm and 90.2 x 121.9cm

Edition of 3
Signed, numbered & titled verso

Crash marker programmes in Australia aim to raise awareness of road safety by identifying where fatal and serious injury crashes have occurred. The wooden markers are fixed into the ground, and painted black or red with a symbolic reflector.

Here, Odette England reinterprets the torrent of random snapshots that pile into mind during a car accident by creating multi-layered ‘memory-scapes’ at different crash sites.

  • CRASHES #1
  • CRASHES #5
  • CRASHES #8
  • CRASHES #7
  • CRASHES #2
  • CRASHES #3
  • CRASHES #4

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