Vernissage/Opening: 2018, Monday January 22nd 17.00-19.00
Exhibition Dates: January 23rd - February 23rd from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday
Natural Artifice is a group exhibition of photographic work exploring how naturalistic and illusionistic representations influence the construction and understanding of reality. The exhibition aims to develop an understanding of what it means when photography has become the vehicle through which we learn about and disseminate knowledge, experience, and aspirations of our shared reality. Natural Artifice is about the truth hidden deep within illusions and under the skin of visual deceit, it’s about the simultaneously absurd and indispensable reliance on a consistent and trustworthy image of reality to navigate through. Natural Artifice consists of work that taps into a territory where spatial practices and photography overlap in their engagement with and reliance on finely executed lifelike representations. The Natural Artifice exhibition gives form to an argument where fields that rely on naturalism, such as visual art, architecture and photography, are proposed to be structurally similar and rely on similar representational strategies. Following this argument photography is proposed to have an intrinsic affinity with naturalistic subject matter. The exact nature of this interplay is examined by juxtaposing work that grapples with and subverts the division between reality and fiction, either through the content of the photograph or in the creative and intellectual approach that has lead to its creation. At the exhibition a limited edition screen printed pamphlet is available. The pamphlet, designed by John Phillip Sage and printed by Entreentre Press, features text by Neil Bennun, Sam Lynch and Frederik Petersen as well as images from the exhibition.
Onorato & Krebs (CH/DE)
Asger Carlsen (DK/USA)
Anne Haaning (DK/NO/UK)
Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira (EC/USA)
Claus Peder Pedersen (DK)
Richard Barnes (USA)
Louis de Belle (IT/DE)
Mette Juul (DK)
Vlatka Horvat (HR/UK)
Fosi Vegue (ES)
Karen Gamborg Knudsen (DK)
Frederik Petersen (DK/UK)
Writers:
Neil Bennun (UK/NO)
Samantha Lynch (UK/CAN)
Frederik Petersen (DK/UK)
Graphic design:
John Philip Sage (UK/ES)
Curators:
Frederik Petersen, Anne Friis, Karen Gamborg Knudsen
Venue:
Oxford Glass Tank Gallery
Abercrombie Building
Headington Campus
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford - OX3 0BP
Supported by:
The Dreyer Fondation, Danish Arts Foundation, Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond af 1968.