by Low Lai Chow in New Art on Friday 10 August 2012

In Lee Materazzi’s Spaces with Meaning photo series, the illusions you witness of her body in strange contorted and sometimes beheaded poses have apparently gone through no digital manipulation. Instead, they are happily staged for the camera. Of these images, the artist has said they are about how people ‘imbue such everyday practices and spaces with meaning, and equally the emotional impact that these actions and spaces then have on our psyche’. That, and we also observed an urge to stretch.