The Poetics of the Everyday

The Salome Gallery, SHARP, 308-312 Brixton Road, London
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This event ended on Friday 27th of May 2016
Admission
Free
Location

The Salome Gallery, SHARP, 308-312 Brixton Road, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Brixton 0.48 miles

This is my first photographic solo show.

Private View: Monday 4th April 2016 5-8pm
Exhibition; 4th April to 30th May (by appointment only 020 3228 7050)
Artist's Talk: Wednesday 11th May 1-3pm

Public spaces are contested, on the one hand subject to corporatization on the other reclaimed with oppositional content. The boundaries blur with creative resistance subverting the aesthetics of design while advertisers adopt the aesthetic of graffiti artists. In the urban hyper modern spaces are ever shifting and increasingly text imbued.

The Poetics of the Everyday is a series of photographs made in these contexts. I don't look for subjects they find me. It always starts with the image. The impulse here is not to imitate street art nor to exoticize the everyday but to reveal it's intimacies, occasional surprises, hint at narrative inclinations.

Images are produced on C type matt paper, Giclee art paper and acrylic blocks. I am concerned with colour and line, texture and the atmosphere of place. While I miss the threading of film I am now exploring the possibilities of the digital. My main practice is poetry though I feel there is a parallel between poetry and photography in the distillation of meaning in process and form.

Derrida suggests that everything is a text, if so the everyday, including human agency, is textual, consequently the subject of poetics, defined, after Aristotle, as the systematic study of literature, or a unified theory of texts. These works explore the negotiation of public and private, the remains of human agency. There is an emphasis on the decaying, derelict or discarded. They suggest the demarcation between public and private is not so clear cut, exemplified than in the Washing Day series which demonstrate how the intimately private becomes public.

There is, I think, in my work a subliminal influence of early punk, the beat poets, Dada certainly the French objet trouvé famously used by Duchamp. There is possibly an unconsciousness in these texts as postulated by Jean Bellemin-Noel after Lacan, if so one which hints at my own alienation, my fragility as a bipolar adult and consequent fractured relationship to the world.

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