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Diogo Duarte, "La Revanche dans les Latrines", 2014
Exhibition
Shake the Bottle: Contemporary Photography and Sexual Identity
11 Sep 2015 – 10 Oct 2015
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury
- New Dover Road
- Canterbury
United Kingdom - CT1 3AN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Travel from London Victoria to Canterbury East Station (1h 13-30mins), then by taxi or foot to the campus (10 minute walk). Canterbury West Station (which is a twenty minute walk from the gallery) is also served by trains from St Pancras and Waterloo (1h
Whilst in no way attempting a survey, ‘Shake The Bottle: Contemporary Photography and Sexual Identity’, seeks to capture what is particular in contemporary LGBT culture, representation and concerns, as seen through mainly young and less shown contemporary artists, using photography.
About
The show brings together seven artists who have responded to a ‘call for works’. The catalyst of this event is the University for the Creative Arts archive of Tessa Boffin, an LGBT photographer in the 1980s/90s, who undertook work around AIDS and exploration of the tensions between contemporary media representation and ways in which performance and stereotype could be exploited through tableau, drawing on historical and mythical figures.
The work of Tessa Boffin, as a photographer, an academic and an activist, forms something of a snap-shot of an iconic period, recognizable as politically oppositional and issues orientated. Whilst tremendous political, cultural and legal change has occurred in the intervening period, this show and discussion seek to examine what are key issues and concerns for artists making work around sexual identity and whether any special space of representation remains relevant.
