London Trip (West End Galleries) 11.03.13 - The Photographer's Gallery
POSTED ON Monday, 11 March 2013 AT 13:20 \\

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About the space:-

The Photographer's Gallery consists of 5 floors that are each dedicated to different exhibitions at a time, as well as being accompanied by a book/print shop on the ground floor. 
On this visit the various floors featured works by Laura Letinsky (2nd floor), Geraldo De Barros (4th floor) and an exhibition called Perspectives On Collage (5th floor). Whilst being given a thoroughly informative talk by one of the staff of the gallery, I learnt a bit about how and why the gallery space has been constructed. For example on the 5th floor (top floor) there is a hatch in the ceiling that allows for larger works to be lifted and lowered into the gallery where it would be impossible to carry it up stairs/ get it through doors because of size. 

Whilst in the 5th floor space, I took a look at the exhibition Perspectives on Collage. Works in this exhibition that particularly drew me in were the collages of:

C.K. Rajan

-often overlays just two contrasting images sourced from magazines or newspapers.
-retaining modernist size and scale.
-responds to how economic modernisation creates strange social and cultural contradictions.
-other practices include painting, drawing and sculpture.

Batia Suter

Wave, Floor Version #1 - Floor collage (wooden plinths and books)
-explores the poetic connections between photographs of disaparate subjects and encyclopoedic knowledge.

Roy Arden

-influenced by pop art
"although the works are always looking to the past, they are not nostalgic or sentimental- their subject matter is more likely to be trauma, desire or violence."
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