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FLESH runs at The Brick
Lane Gallery: 11th–17th May, 1pm-6pm.
Private View: 12th May 2010, 6pm – 8pm, by
invitation only.
PHOTOGRAPHER HAMISH BROADBENT
MAKES DOUBLE
UK DEBUT WITH FLESH, FICTION & NON-FICTION
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FLESH runs at The Brick
Lane Gallery: 11th–17th May, 1pm-6pm.
Private View: 12th May 2010, 6pm – 8pm, by
invitation only.
PHOTOGRAPHER HAMISH BROADBENT
MAKES DOUBLE
UK DEBUT WITH FLESH, FICTION & NON-FICTION
Photographer Hamish Broadbent is
to mark his UK exhibition debut with two
consecutive solo shows in London this May.
The first of these, entitled ‘Flesh’,
examines human activity under opposed conditions
of confined and unconfined space. In the first case
- on tubes, trains and airplanes - the
constraint is imposed by the mode of travel and subjects
are photographed close up,
according to their confined state. In the second,
the constraint is self-imposed -
choosing to occupy the same public park at the same
time each morning - and the
subjects are photographed in isolation according
to the condition of their choice and the
routine they have developed. In both cases the closed
circuit of activity is centred on the body and its
cycle of repetition.
Of ‘Flesh’ Broadbent says, “When
human matter is crammed into a confined space, it
exudes a spiritual yearning which, when that constraint
is removed, can get dissipated in limited objectives
or simple aimlessness - the physical constraint being
replaced by a
mental one”. The two series featured within
the exhibition correspond to these two
outcomes - the style of the first deriving from Bosch’s ‘Christ
Carrying the Cross’ with
that of the second providing its counterpoint.
Images from ‘Flesh’ by Hamish Broadbent
‘Untitled’, 2004, 2007. Pearl Resin-coated Ilford Multigrade.
The second exhibition, ‘Fiction & Non-Fiction’ is
comprised of three series of ten
photographs each. In the first the camera operates
at the limit of its ability to retain a
stable image and the material content of the world
is smeared into the vertical plane
while, in the second, objects resist this process
by adhering rigorously to its lateral
surfaces – the fiction and non-fiction referred
to in the title. The third mediates the two in a
journey through the functional environment of the
road-scape.
Images from ‘Fiction & Non-Fiction’ by
Hamish Broadbent
‘Untitled’, 2006, 2007, 2009. Pearl Resin-coated Ilford Multigrade
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Of ‘Fiction & Non-Fiction’ Broadbent
says, “The beauty of photography is that it
makes imaginary objects out of the reality of real
ones, in a way that painting and
sculpture can’t and so for the photographer
the world is a material tide which never
ebbs.” This exhibition represents three ways
in which this happens - when things are
moving, when they are still and when they are part
of a single, continuous event. Each
series represents a different experience of the material
nature of things and so each
ends in a different way - with the physical break-up
of the image, with the physical death of the person
and with the physical end of the event.
‘Fiction & Non-Fiction’ is therefore the direct continuation
of the first exhibition ‘Flesh’
in which the material in question is the human body.
FLESH runs at The Brick Lane Gallery: 11th–17th
May, 1pm-6pm.
Private View: 12th May 2010, 6pm – 8pm, by
invitation only.
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