Artist field note

Daniel Boyd

History is never as clear as it looks.

Appears inOceania

04 / 05

Untitled (DOC)

2016

Photography looks like evidence until Boyd interrupts it. History is also made from gaps, exclusions and framing.

The five in one idea

Boyd gives us the image and blocks our view of it at the same time. History is never simply what survived; it is also what someone allowed us to see.