Air Index

About

The technique of lumen printing is an art of errors, a softly anarchist twisting of a thing’s destiny. Gelatin silver paper, intended for recording black-and-white photographs, is instead left brightly toned — undeveloped — and stabilized with fixer in order to retain its array of pinks, violets, pastels, and dull yellows. This hybrid form glows; it exists in a space between photography and painted canvas, document and pure form.

During this past winter, spring, and summer, Rachelle Bussières, based in New York City, corresponded with twenty-five artists from various locales to coordinate the prints collected at Equivalentbehaviour Space. Each photographer exposed a few sheets of gelatin silver paper to their local light, allowing it to become suffused with the radiance, atmospheric flux, and impurities of their environment.

Air Index is made in collaboration with artists from around the globe; Svetlana Bailey (New York), Rachelle Bussières (New York), Robert Canali (San Francisco), Vanessa Cowling (Cape Town), Kate Van Der Drift (New Zealand), Hannah Fletcher (London), Shaina Gates (Kittery), Martha Gray (London), Ramona Guntert (London), Natasha Harrison (Orlando), Daniel Hojnacki (Chicago), Nikolai Ishchuk (London), Constanza Isaza Martinez (London), Thomas Jenkins (London), Tamara Kalo (Beirut), Melanie King (Manchester), Alyssa Minahan (Boston), Sara Minsky (New York), Ng Hui Hsien (Singapore), Yvette Hamilton (Sydney), Armelle Tulunda (Paris), Yann Pocreau (Montréal), Izabela Pluta (Sydney), John Steck Jr. (Baltimore), and Katrina Stamatopoulos (London).

In conjunction with Air Index at Equivalentbehaviour, Melanie King’s installation, Quantum Entanglement Oscillograph, will be exhibited at Tokoro Studio, the sister space of Equivalentbehaviour, where Agata Kik and Martyn Riley will performing a Gong bath.

LOCATION

Equivalentbehaviour Space // Tokoro Studio, N15 4QL London // August 15–26, 2024

OPENING:

Thursday, August 15, 5pm until sun down

WEEKEND EVENT:

Conversation with Rachelle Bussières and Melanie King: Sunday, August 18, 4PM

Gong Bath with Agata Kik // Martyn Riley: Sunday, August 18, 6PM