Something more # 8

Tracey Moffatt’s nine-part series Something more depicts the story of a young woman yearning to escape her rural existence. Providing glimpses into the protagonist’s life, the images evoke a disquieting atmosphere of violence and sexual malice in a small outback town. Through association rather than straight narrative, Moffatt suggests a world where characters of different racial backgrounds and states of innocence and experience co-exist in uneasy tension.

Throughout her career Moffatt has drawn on the history of film for inspiration. In Something more Moffatt adapts cinematic conventions such as close-up, low angles and blurred motion to aid her storytelling, photographing her models against brightly painted backdrops, reminiscent of 1950s melodramas.

Maria Zagala, Curator Prints, Drawings and Photographs