Co-curator of PROTOCOL #1
PROTOCOL #1: “Participant Observation”. An exhibition of photographs and films by Yann Gross and Bronwen Parker-Rhodes presented during the Create Festival London. The event took place in Create House, Canary Wharf / London (28.06.11 – 25.07.11) +
Helvetic Centre presents:
PROTOCOL aims to explore some shifts of the visual regime through a series of exhibitions and talks dedicated to photography. Each event will show the work of emerging talents from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Following a recurrent procedure, the goal is to offer a laboratory that facilitate exchanges between different fields and audiences. For this #1 session, around the notion of Participant Observation, the works of Yann Gross and Bronwen Parker-Rhodes trace the nexus between photographic aesthetics and ethnographic investigation.
Somewhere between fine art and documentary, Bronwen Parker-Rhodes provides intriguing glimpses into the private worlds that people create for themselves. By entering intimately these personal spaces, she aims to reveal some hidden identities and the elusive rituals and routines of the everyday. From bikers of the Rhone Valley to Ugandan skaters, Yann Gross touches on the symbolic re-appropriation of geographical sites, the construction of imaginary communities, as much as the rereading of exoticism in cinema or in photojournalism.
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www.yanngross.com
www.bronfilms.com
www.helveticcentre.ch
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Curators Anna Pfab, Régis Tosetti and Joël Vacheron
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Saturday, 16 July, 8pm
Talk series: “Sousveillance”
Guest speaker: Adnan Hadzi (Deptford.tv)
Opening Party + discussion with the artists
Tuesday, 28 June, 7pm
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Create House (in front of Canary Wharf Station – see plan above)
2-4 Heron Quays