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TAMARA TWO
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LISA THREE
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YOSHI TWO
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KIMBERLEY FOUR
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ALICE ONE
Exhibition
HAND. by Agenda Brown
9 Sep 2021 – 9 Jan 2022
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 14 Bury Place
- London
England - WC1A 2JL
- United Kingdom
In a special collaboration with photographer Agenda Brown, the London Review Bookstore & Cakeshop will launch his HAND. series with an exhibition of prints, creating an installation across four sites in this beautiful Bloomsbury courtyard.
About
“I have had a lifelong connection and fascination for hands,” says photographer Agenda Brown from @studiomarvelry. “Used for everything that we do in daily life, our hands can be the toughest things we possess whilst being used for the most delicate operations, their tactile sensitivity capable of detecting a single hair.”This balance of strength and sensitivity that hands encapsulate is a metaphor for human nature, Agenda believes. “There’s a universal truth in hands that expands on the idea of narrative and communication held in the body that have been core to my practice.” Our hands often speak for us in an unselfconscious way, to join bits of conversation together, punctuate emotion, and add layers of expression that shortcut, emphasise and signpost - they are our only other formal tool for communication.
“With portraits, I’ve always been interested in the shape a person occupies in the space you have given it, and HAND. extends that exploration, says Agenda.” “To see a hand at a scale so much greater than it is in reality, zooming in on something that more normally flashes past you in a split second in a conversation, asks you to examine it for a length of time you would never normally spend on it. There is a deeper looking, and for longer, that reveals so many layers in stillness.”
Featuring Agenda’s selection from the collection, the exhibition will also include a beautiful bound set of 10 A5 images, each in their own protective sleeve, and presented in a photographic archive folder. This set will be available for sale, as will framed and unframed prints, and the accompanying exhibition catalogue.
The exhibition is supported by Felstead Studios who will be creating the stunning framing for the prints, and can be commissioned to create beautiful frames for print purchases from the collection. HAND. prints will appear in the windows of Rodic Davidson Architects and The Classic Camera alongside an interior installation for the London Review Bookshop and Cakeshop.
