Dear friends of the gallery,
we would like to cordially invite you to an artist reception and exhibition opening on Thursday, September 2 at 7pm!
Before, at 6pm, we are hosting a book signing, guided tour of the exhibition and artist talk with Andy Sewell and Robert Morat. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you then!
“Known and Strange Things Pass is about the deep and complex entanglement of technology with contemporary life. It’s about the immediacy of touch and the commonplace miracle of action at a distance; the porosity of the boundaries that hold things apart, and the fragility of the bonds that lock them together.” (Eugenie Shinkle, 1000 Words Magazine)
The transatlantic communications link between Europe and North America, the fiber optic lines of the deep-sea cable through which most of our daily data communication flows, and the actual places where these cables make landfall on both sides of the Atlantic, for British photographer Andy Sewell become threads in a web of analogies.
The series combines technology studies and landscape images taken along the coastlines on both sides of the Atlantic. The project‘s non-linear narrative and associative editing become an analogy of our modern life: “Things in different spatial or temporal phases intertwine and coexist. Worlds we think of as separate bleed into each other – the near and the distant, the ocean and the internet, the physical and the virtual, what we think of as the natural with the cultural and the technological.”
Andy Sewell, born 1978, lives and works in London. His work is exhibited internationally and can be found in important collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London or the Columbia University Art Collection, New York. The book to the exhibition was published by Skinnerbox.
Opening Reception:
on Thursday, September 02 2021, 7-9 pm
Exhibition:
from September 03 to October 30, 2021