Exhibition
Reservoir - Jolanta Dolewska
1 Mar 2016 – 29 Mar 2016
Event times
Launch event Tuesday 1st March 2016 6pm - 9pm with artist in conversation with James Parkin at 6.30pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 14 Bradbury Street
- London
- N16 8JN
- United Kingdom
An exhibition of photographs by Jolanta Dolewska
About
In Reservoir, Jolanta Dolewska transposes photographs from negatives inherited from her late father together with her own photographs. Her father’s archive of family photographs, technical documentation, school photography and portraiture were taken over a period of his life as a photographer. Dolewska uses these photographs as the departure point for her personal enquiry in considering different possibilities and interpretations, with a desire to develop a discourse around found images. Using content originating from different registers she aims to augment the ambiguity of perception in looking at photographs.
The work addresses themes of alienation and displacement. Rather than a single photograph showing a decisive event, she chooses to work with decontextualised images. In doing so, she creates subtle points of interconnectivity across the genres of portraiture, landscape, abstraction and still life. The exhibition features a selection of images from the series and presents a book dummy handmade by the artist.
The exhibition is curated by Sunil Shah.