Ph: The Photography Research Network is very pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Bridging the Distance at Four Corners, London.
A group exhibition by international photography, moving image, and lens-related artists, Bridging the Distance re-evaluates photography’s ability to draw people close to the feelings, concerns, and lived experiences of those who exist beyond their own immediate physical, political, and cultural spaces.
Curated by Gil Pasternak, the exhibition features the work of international artists Andreia Alves de Oliveira, Estéfani Bouza, Liz J Drew, Paula Gortázar, Alexandra Hughes, Sukey Parnell Johnson, Uschi Klein, Caroline Molloy, Annalisa Sonzogni, Lauren Winsor. Some of the exhibits in the show prompt renewed consideration of photographic images; others revolve around the implications of photography’s material manifestations. Fantasy, social perception, seclusion, surveillance, and the everyday are themes that run throughout Bridging the Distance, prompting audiences to revisit their understandings of photography’s relationship to vision, visibility, and visualisation in different yet familiar contexts.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated to the world how much human beings are dependent on one another for mutual protection and safety. Considering the global rise of various forms of physical, political, and cultural exclusion that characterize life in the present day nevertheless, Bridging the Distance implores audiences to contemplate how photography may be used to neutralise dogmatic cynicism and establish non-discriminatory connections between people across ideological and actual boundaries alike.
The exhibition will be on display between 23 June and 03 July, 11am - 6.30pm:
Admission free.
Private View 23 July, 6 - 8pm.
For more information, please visit the exhibition’s webpage on the gallery’s website: https://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/whats-on/bridging-the-distance
Image: Annalisa Sonzogni
The exhibition Bridging the Distance has received funding from the Institute of Art and Design at De Montfort University Leicester.
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