Camera Illuminata works

Nina Mankin’s ‘Camera Illuminata’ works are small scale contained installations, that explore clandestine and mysterious narratives, drawing upon the wide resource of old fairy tales, psychology & dreams. she examines themes of identity, gender role play, female sexuality, fantasy, longing, absence and loss. Her use of objects & images take on fetishistic qualities, relating to the poetry of how objects ‘speak’ to one another & their tactile, sensory & psychological nature. Her choice of materials is a direct response to the throwaway society that we live in. The attempt to salvage what has been abandoned and labelled as useless, becomes renewed in a search for beauty and deeper meaning.