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Past Exhibitions | Future Exhibition
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Kathrin Kur’s images concentrate on the boundaries between familiarity and privacy, and the making public of covert technologies. Pursuit of Fiction documents television and cinema production spaces, which produce so much of our collective reality. Their centrality to the networks of the news and entertainment industries is however, at once obvious and surprising. Kur's photographs present the apparatus, facilities and machinery of stage sets; their intrinsic strangeness and 'separate reality'. By focusing on the jamais-vu of these locations, rather than their products – the fictions which have become so commonplace – the images reveal an unreal constructed world.
We are no longer astonished by the spectacles greeting us as we scan the television channels; whether reportage or drama and in whatever country we find ourselves viewers. Yet the fabrication of this imagery – its mediation or construction of a reality in complete accord with our expectations - is completely foreign. Despite the attempts, especially of reality shows, to feature more and more their own means of production, we are increasingly unable to reconcile the actual circumstances of filming with what we consume, precisely because of the necessities of the spaces that Kur presents.
Kathrin Kur (born in Germany 1975) studied in visual arts at UDK Berlin and Brighton University and received an MA in Critical Theory from Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a member of art collective ‘flunk’ and was a curator of the International Media Architecture 2007 conference. |
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As part of Photofusion’s commitment to supporting photographers at the early stages of their careers, Jo Hill and Jason Wilde will each present work in the second gallery.
Jo Hill’s photographic series, Joinery, is part of an ongoing search for moments of beauty within the visual chaos of the urban landscape. They are a celebration of hidden gems that exist within streetscapes all over the world but largely go unnoticed: the 'urban edge' where different buildings or parts of buildings join together to create an abstract canvas of contrasting colours, textures or materials.
Jason Wilde’s I’ll Kill All Your Fish is part of an enquiry into contemporary social and political issues surrounding council housing estates and their communities. While he was contracted by a portrait company to take portraits of householders, Wilde also created a separate series of their bathrooms and toilets. By probing this space for the signs of the commonplace and mundane, this series of photographs becomes a microcosm of the daily lives of the people that inhabit these particular environments. |
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| For further information about the exhibition, sales and gallery talks, please email gallery@photofusion.org or telephone 020 7738 5774. |
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Photography Gallery
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ASSOCIATED EVENTS
PRIVATE VIEW
Thursday 17 January 2008
18.30 - 21.00
GALLERY TALK
Tuesday 19 February, 19:15
(£5 / £3.50 annual members)
Kathrin Kur will be in conversation with David Campany, an artist, writer and Reader of Photography at University of Westminster whose publications include Art and Photography (Phaidon) and Photography and Cinema (Reaktion Books)
To book a place please call
020 7738 5774
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