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Scratched Surfaces is a collaboration between Emma Filipsson and Marcus Jonsson-Filipsson exploring their relationship with family memories. Their practice is concerned predominantly with urban and social landscapes often linking to poetry and literature as well as stories emanating from personal encounters with people, objects and architecture. These themes often run parallel with shared personal experiences; They identify patterns of human activity, the subjects of their work becoming isolated examples of these sociological formations. Cinema space is a public place where the mind can privately wander. Rachel Jones Narrative and Understanding focuses on the boundary between private and public within the urban realm. The images depict figures David Kendall’s practice explores how spatial, economic and design Lanis Levy ’s brighton beach/coney island 2010(1972) was originally conceived and shown as a slide projection piece in 1972, brighton beach/coney island is a series documenting the social life of an aging community played out on the pavement and along the boardwalk in Brooklyn. Returning to these images after many years, they read as both singular moments and a cohesive narrative; a joyous memorial to what went before (but equally may still be there).
Wearing these clothes and making these images in Bognor became a performance, an intervention, an experience in overcoming an emotional resistance against standing out in the small town and a need to conform. Through the rich colours of these constructed scenes, the artist creates a fiction, or ‘narrative of place’. A move to the city traditionally allows for the creation of a new narrative, a new self. Is it equally possible to reverse this, to create a new narrative of place? In these images, the photograph is an argument-Bognor is redefined, and the myth of place is challenged. Dancing Man Daryl Waller serves up his victims some rhetorical uncertainties. His interests and themes are scattered and dyslexic as he wanders nomad-like from one piece of work to another. Daryl's work offers us a full range of contradictions, an honest account of humanity, extreme on both ends of the spectrum – from masculine to feminine, violent to loving, naive to knowledgeable, expressing nihilism mixed with joy and wonderment. |
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