Exhibition
Faces From the Continuum - Photography by Meirion Harries
24 Apr 2017 – 29 Apr 2017
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 112 Brackenbury Road
- London
- W6 0BD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Goldhawk Road / Hammersmith
FACES FROM THE CONTINUUM
Meirion Harries’ new exhibition, offered in the era of Trump, Brexit and Le Pen, puts the underlying question in graphic form: just how different are we from one another? And does preserving our differences justify walls, borders and expulsions?
About
‘Faces from the Continuum’ presents images across time and space: Thracian death masks and the faces from English alabaster tomb sculptures, Orthodox icons and medieval frescoes; Communist dictators, the poor and dispossessed, riders in the Tour de France, Edinburgh Festival street performers.
This exhibition asks if race, culture, religion, region and era really separate us - or are they irrelevant to the understanding of what it means to be human? Do we exist solely in our here and now, or as part of a continuum of humanity stretching through time and across our planet? Will you recognise the people gazing at you from the walls of the Hepsibah Gallery – from 5,000 years ago or from today – as part of you?
Meirion Harries was brought up in Penang and London and has lived and worked in Hong Kong and Tokyo. He is a writer as well as photographer and has, with his wife, written six books on Japanese and American history. Fifteen years ago he founded a social enterprise to help people with learning disabilities to communicate using photography, film and websites. Meirion has an MA and LLM from Cambridge and holds a Certificate of Advanced Digital Filmmaking from City University, London.