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Unknown #1 (from the project, Dogs: An Inert State)
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from the project, Specere I: Appareil
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spirit # 43 (from the project, s p i r it s)
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Shahzada and Marquis of Lorne (from the project, Dogs: An Inert State)
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Specere II # 149 (from the project, Specere II: Fixing the Shadows)
Exhibition
Specere
20 Oct 2017 – 27 Oct 2017
Event times
Monday to Friday 10am-4pm
Cost of entry
free
Address
- University of Northampton
- St. Georges Avenue
- Northampton
- NN2 6JD
- United Kingdom
Specere is a culmination of photographic-based works by Alexandra Murphy exploring natural history museum collections in the UK.
About
The projects produced over the past ten years explore potential connections between metapsychology, museology and photography - between Todestrieb or death-drive (Sigmund Freud), decay and possibilities of defiance in attempts to preserve the past. ‘specere’ is the Latin root word for common words such as: specimen; spectacle; species – all words relevant to my research, thus Specere becomes a symbolic word for the interplay between life and death, past and present within the museum space. Please visit: www.acm-photo.com for further information about the project work.
