London Group member Charlotte C Mortensson has curated this exhibition showing the work of five artists who have documented over months and years the social, physical and cultural importance of a place/places that have a personal resonance for them.
A Persistent Place
In archaeological terms a persistent place describes a meaningful location repeatedly visited and inhabited.
London Group member Charlotte C Mortensson has curated this exhibition showing the work of five artists who have documented over months and years the social, physical and cultural importance of a place/places that have a personal resonance for them.
In addition to her own photographs from Trench Town Jamaica, where she has been documenting the self-built housing since 2006, the exhibition features London Group member Amanda Loomes’ experimental documentary video, Persistent Place (16 mins 30 secs) which weaves together generations of work by people at North Park Quarry in Surrey, from the Mesolithic hunters who struck flints there, to today’s machine operators who now quarry the sand.
The other artists are James Milne whose work the curator first noticed in the London Group Open 2015. It is centred on post industrial sites near his home in South Wales. Michael Kirkham, the creator of Urban Goals, is showing a selection of photographs from his home town of Liverpool where the now national project started. Pierre Kellenberger is one of the foremost architectural photographers in Zurich.
The venue is a 4-storey 400-year-old gallery which overlooks the Lake of Zurich.
For more information about the show: www.kunsthaeuschen-herrliberg.ch
Kunsthaeuschen Herrliberg
Forchstrasse 32
8704 Herrliberg
Switzerland
Sunday 19 May to Sunday 16 June 2019
PV Sunday 19 May 11am – 5pm
Opening times:
Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am – 5pm
