Risk is a work about circus and physical performance in three acts.

The first act explores when going back is no longer an option, the second finds beauty

In the consequences of this obsession while the third considers the dislocation between promise and delivery

As Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria states in the exhibition catalogue

“Ponch has been drawn to capture the crucial moment of ‘No return’ in an act. She has often photographed the most breathtaking of performances where choices have the most dramatic consequences… Using physical theatre as a metaphor, Ponch suggests that promises made can be broken and the moral fall that occurs can be just as definitive as any physical accident”

Act One - Beyond Commitment

Act Two - Landscape of Wounds

Act Three - Shattered experiences