Five collections within a single archive, exploring the male figure through photography and constructed imagery, moving from idealisation to individuality, from artefact to memory, and finally toward age and time.
The earliest photographic body of work in the archive. Produced under the pseudonym Dylan Ricci, these images approach the male figure as form rather than biography. Identity recedes and form takes precedence. Light, structure, and composition become the principal subjects.
Enter CollectionThe second photographic body in the archive. Produced between 2013 and 2020 under Schooneman's own name, these portraits turn fully toward the individual. Identity, however quiet or fragile, occupies the centre of each frame. The anonymous figure of the earlier work gives way to biography, presence, and the distinct life of the sitter.
Enter CollectionThe first body of constructed imagery in the archive. These works abandon the observed world in favour of an invented one, presenting fictional artefacts possessing the authority of historical objects, drawing on the languages of archaeology, sculpture, and museum display.
Enter CollectionThe second body of constructed imagery in the archive. Where The Robertson Collection explores the authority of the artefact, Eternal Youth turns toward the authority of memory. These imagined figures exist outside any specific place or chronology, suspended between recollection and invention. Drawing upon mythology, landscape, portraiture and classical forms, the works evoke remembered moments that feel recovered rather than created.
Enter CollectionThe most recent body of constructed imagery in the archive. Where Eternal Youth suspends a remembered moment, these works place youth beside age and allow time to move between them. Turning away from idealisation, the collection considers inheritance, memory, mortality and the fragile continuity between generations.
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