According to New Zealand-based artist Layla Rudneva Mackay, the photographic work in this exhibition catalogue has emerged from the ruins of her sculptural practice and exists in parallel with her graphic work, painting, and writing. Her evocative, mystical photos have evolved from a practice characterised by poetic slips and language holes.

Such photographic work characteristically involves forms, figures, and situations set against interior and exterior backdrops, with their gestures and activities vague and sometimes obscured or altered by fabric and paint.

This oversized, soft-covered catalogue surveys her photographic works from 2003 to 2010. Their theatrical quality is not surprising; the artist also works as a costume designer and fabricator on films such as The Chronicles of Narnia.