SAID - Fran Cottell, Jefford Horrigan and Verdi Yahooda

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The focus of this exhibition is on documenting performance. The three artists take the records and remnants of their private and public 'performances' and utilise, aestheticise and exploit these as visual material 'to work with'.
The artists present work in a dialogue with past, present and future events. Fran Cottell will focus on the past: her house projects, photographed by Terry Watts, and 'THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF SOUTH LONDON: Art in the Time of Reagan' performed in the garden of the South London Gallery in 2006, for Camberwell Arts Festival. This documentation by Mark Harwood reflects a composed, fixed documentary viewpoint contrasting with unforeseen audience interactions and visual outcomes.
In his documentation, Jefford Horrigan is less interested in achieving some truth or secondary likeness to an actual work than in provoking an interest in the next piece or using fragments of it to move towards future projects. His public focus will emphasise the 'actual presence' of a real time event by performing at the South London Gallery on 21 January.

As a personal project with no premeditated intention of public display, Verdi Yahooda's approach is continuous. She has photographed herself systematically since 1974, using the Photo Booth. The project started with the 'classic' booth, which has now been replaced by its digital equivalent, disrupting, but continuing the sequence.