CITY CONSTRUCTS VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

This virtual exhibition is of work first seen in solo shows over the past decade. For the first time these images are hung together, creating a new dialogue between the hundreds of photos which are the constituents of each composition, the timing of the original shoots - and the year of completion of each work. In the process, they provide a powerful memory of how the cityscape was, before a time of Covid.

For all that we might miss the encounter with work in a physical gallery, there are advantages to curating and exhibiting virtually. Here I have had total freedom of selection, great accessibility and, let’s face it, an easy install! I will also have the opportunity to update the curation and add rooms to make the exhibition evolve, again unique to showing as a digital experience. My work is deliberately sited on the spectrum that stretches from the virtual to what is real. There is a deliberate relationship between the digital and the physical. Physical places that I visit are digitised in camera and presented as physical works on a wall which are here digitally represented in a virtual 3D space.

This is work made before Covid - and becomes particularly relevant now, as our city centres become emptier places. The purpose and use of city space has always informed my work. These are images of people moving in an intricate mass through the city of crowds gathering at iconic landmarks. The exhibition now provides a powerful historical comment on this process in a time of Covid, as social distancing is now applied to environments that were not designed for a luxury of personal space. And just as crowds now become illegal, now you view this exhibition in a space that you need not share with anyone else.

For information on pricing and availability of any of the works in this exhibition, please contact studio@tleighton.com