Exhibition

Post No Bills

16 Sep 2022 – 23 Oct 2022

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The Koppel Project Hive

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The question of familiarity and recognition as communicated through images, especially those that are fragmented or partial, is the central theme of this exhibition.

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The Koppel Project is pleased to present:

POST NO BILLS

Featuring Benjamin Jones  & Stephan Keppel

Private View 15 September 6-9pm

Open Tues - Thur 10am-6pm

Friday, Saturday, Sunday via appointment only. Contact info@thekoppelproject.com

The question of familiarity and recognition as communicated through images, especially those that are fragmented or partial, is the central theme of this exhibition. Both Benjamin Jones (b.1994, UK) and Stephan Keppel (b.1973, NL) use photographic processes to re-present urban and natural subjects in a way that underscores this translation, and in different ways reference the many layers of a photographic object; how it connects to what we’ve seen, learnt and expect from a re-presentation of the world.

This exhibition brings together four groups of work, including a room sized installation from Keppel, using a repeated image pasted to the gallery walls that has been reinterpreted from his Soft Copy Hard Copy publication. As well as these will be new print based works on canvas that again translate images of urban space into graphic forms. Jones displays two large scale, multi-panel prints depicting internal views of botanical glasshouses, the fragmented structure of the image and varied focal planes echoing the movement of the human eye across a scene of dense visual information; alongside these are abstractions that weave geometric and organic forms, made by layering and collaging exposures in the darkroom.

The impetus for this show came about following both artists exhibiting at Camera Austria (Graz, AT) during 2021, at which time they became conscious of one another’s practices. The shared attention to a fusion of process and subject led naturally to this project, which will be Keppel’s first UK exhibition and Jones first show in London since 2019.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an essay from the artist, writer, curator and educator Duncan Wooldridge, stemming from a discussion around Wooldridge’s recently published book To Be Determined (SPBH, 2021).

Stephan Keppel (born 1973 in Anna Paulowna, NL) studied autonomous art (1994–98) at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (NL) and has since worked primarily with photographic and printmaking techniques. He has had his studio in Amsterdam (NL) since 2003. In 2020 he started a printmaking studio in his family’s former farmhouse in his hometown. The book projects Reprinting the City (Den Helder, 2012), Entre Entree (Paris, 2014), Flat Finish (New York, 2017), and Soft Copy Hard Copy (Amsterdam, 2021), Immer Zimmer (Graz, 2022), all published by Fw:Books in Amsterdam, were acquired for various collections, for example the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam (NL), the International Center for Architecture in New York (US), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal (CA). Recently Keppel won the Somfy Photography Award 2020 with an installation at the Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam.

Benjamin Jones (b. 1994 in Reading, GB) is an artist based in London, who studied photography at Bath School of Art and Design and works with photographic processes and images. Current and recent projects include Post No Bills (with Stephan Keppel, 2022 The Koppel Project Hive, London), Passive Aggressive (with Robert Luzar, 2021, 36 Gallery, Newcastle), Something, Like Nothing, Happens Anywhere (solo, 2021, Camera Austria, Graz), 4 frogs (2021, DUM project space, Ljubljana), Analogue Processes (solo, 2020, Antonini, Milan), Shades of Grey (2020, Galerie artepari, Graz), Glashaus (with Alexandra Gschiel, 2019, Schaumbad - Freies Atelierhaus Graz). He has recently completed residencies in Graz and Thessaloniki, and was a graduate fellow at Spike Island, Bristol (2016–17). His work has been published by Camera Austria, LOOM Gallery and M-A (A SPACE BETWEEN).

Duncan Wooldridge is an artist and writer and curator, and the Pathway Leader for the MA Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. He has written for a number of art and photography periodicals, including Artforum, Art Monthly, Elephant, Eikon, Foam, Over, and 1000 Words. 

Curatorial Projects include 'Anti-photography' (Focal Point, 2011); 'John Hilliard: Not Black and White' (Richard Saltoun, 2014); and 'Moving The Image: Photography and its Actions' (Camberwell Space/Peckham 24, 2019). Recent Publications include contributions to the monographs 'Niko Luoma, For Each Minute, Sixty-Five Seconds' (Hatje Cantz, 2021); and Ryudai Takano: Daily Photographs 1999-2021' (National Museum of Art Osaka, 2021). He is the author of 'To Be Determined: Photography and the Future', published by SPBH Editions in 2021, and co-editor with Lucy Soutter of the forthcoming 'Writer Conversations', published by 1000 Words in Autumn 2022. 

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