Run over - unrecorded, DVF9 AVK, Drive Off, Caspers Car, Car behind Caspers car, Blue van unrecorded, MD03 JYC, Double Drive off unrecorded, NC05 ZFR, SM55 PHF,
OV59 AVK, C19Z ERD, X735 KLF, Unrecorded, Drive Off, W465 WGK, SM55 PHF, LM52 TNF, GF04 UCR, Run over unrecorded, KG03 ARF, R19Z ERP, Unrecorded, Y747 HMJ,
LA51 GXZ, Random – run over box found in puddle, TF07 AWA, MOO3 JYC, ND54 WZH, HG06 BOF, Aaron from Arriva’s car, Unrecorded, Run over, ND5 6XXP



Selected pinhole exposures, made on bw and C41  10x8” photographic paper, 4x5” C41 film and bw ortho film, 2018







Using shoeboxes rescued from trash or appropriated secondhand, pinhole camera were made over a 6-month period
and placed underneath parked cars temporarily to expose their unseen body parts. Various photographic paper, film
types and exposure times were experimented with to trace each boxes encounter, vulnerably scarring and recording
the photographic material.

While some of the photographs were taken locally and with neighbours’ permission diary entries reveal the risks taken
in sneaking these re-fashioned cameras – oblivious and suspicious to the potential car owner– underneath vehicles that
are the private belongings of others, and with the intensity with what could happen if caught.

Appearing medical in its gaze and forensic in its surveillance, Undercove subverts several binaries at once. Keeping
suspended the gap between human and machine, private and public, street and home, hidden and seen; identification
with neither and both of these supposed binaries occur in this urban underworld.

written by artist and writer Benjamin Carey, 2018

Diary samples:
https://files.cargocollective.com/321198/Diary-samples.pdf















Documentation of cameras and street installation, Tottenham/ Enfield/ Farringdon, London, 2018
Installation view, Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Studios, Deptford, 2018





 


Installation from Interim show at Goldsmiths MFA studios, Lewisham College for further education, London






Trapped in a valve, 2018
Found car engine, sound, 9 mins 06 secs