Event detail
Simon Norfolk Soy una raya en el mar: The Arizona/Mexico Border series.
Schwartz Gallery is pleased to introduce it's first dedicated photographic exhibition in conjunction with the east end Photomonth Festival. The show brings together eight international photographers who investigate social landscapes, their differing approaches innovatively exploring this well trodden genre. The photographers have all been selected for their links to east London, but have travelled and explored international borderspaces traversing political and communal landscapes
Borderspaces: a space of particular interrelations and products of difference. This show is a visual journey exploring flesh, geography, and culture and the links between them. The voice of the local echoes through the landscape as the photographer moves tentatively through its ranges.
Simon Norfolk’s “Soy una raya en el mar”, explores the Arizona / Mexico border. Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin present two series made around the active Volcano Mount Etna, ‘Ex-Voto’ and ‘Support-Structure’. David Spero’s ‘Churches’ expose unlikely places of worship around London.
Three other artists are showing site-specific from London’s East-End, including Tom Hunter’s ‘Swan Song’ depicting the east end waterways. Stephen Gill presents billboard size work from his ‘Hackney Flowers’ series and Danilo Murru’s ‘The London Wall’ documents the 11.5 mile blue wall that surrounds the 2012 Olympic site.
Ali Richards ‘Amomaxia’ explores the dichotomy between vehicle based exhibitionism and voyeurism. Nana Varveropoulou’s series ‘At Home’ explores the sense of ownership through the stories of exiled Cypriots.
The works in the show attempt to communicate the layered narrative within their burdened vistas, to share the experience and create a dialogue between the artist, viewer and landscape. The notion of landscape is challenged as the photographers utilize photographic genres including traditional landscape, detailed interiors and still life.
Artists: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Stephen Gill, Tom Hunter, Danilo Murru, Simon Norfolk, Ali Richards, David Spero, Nana Varveropoulou
Curator: Ali Richards
