Kevin Patrick Dacey
Born: Winthrop, MA 1966
Past Education: Massachusetts College of Art, BFA 2002
Current Residence: East Boston, MA
The photograph can complicate both what is known and what, in approach, is expected. This body of work maps divergent trajectories across established landscapes, such as the museum, a space designed for public and private meditation. Compelled by the potential of recording displacement and disjunction, I seek confirmation of the in-between, of the unscripted dramas of convergent and prismatic locations suggested by architectural junctures and the eye of the camera. My images engage the spaces within and those peripheral to the center of scripted space, inverting the assumed visual hierarchy. By destabilizing our relationship with object and environment, figure and ground, my work challenges and re-calibrates the pose and the optics of looking.