Exposure reflects FORMAT’s bold vision to seek out and celebrate a range of responses to the Festival theme, as well as showcasing the work of exciting and emerging talents. Exhibited in locations throughout the city and selected through open submission by an international jury, it represents 76 artists from over 24 countries.
At its core, Exposure is about embracing diverse voices and approaches and engaging audiences in a spirit of openness, discovery and debate.
As FORMAT comes of age on its 10th birthday, this year’s theme, ‘Evidence’ harks back to the very beginnings of photography in its desire to capture the world around us, and provide forensic proof of time, place, space and their relationship to past and unfolding events. But in addition it also encapsulates what photography is about today, through the plethora of images, which record and survey every aspect of our human existence. ‘Evidence’, explores the thin line between photography’s implicit ‘truth’ and its reinterpretation into the world of fiction and narrative by questioning the whole nature of documental value and the representation of actuality.
Indeed, this has provided a rich vein of inspirational material as demonstrated by the range of work and approaches represented here. ‘Evidence’ is interpreted in many contrasting ways, from the record of human trace within the urban and rural landscape to autobiographical accounts of memory and personal belonging.
Recurrent themes are also explored through the impact of technologies, conspiracy theories, the documentation of identity and personal records, the recording of performance and the staged act, and the phenomena of self-surveillance combined with the sharing of images through social media. Through collections of clues, signs, marks and classifications, EXPOSURE presents some of the most engaging and innovative photography from around the world.
See all Exposure‘s exhibitions (Part I):
http://www.formatfestival.com/exhibitions/artists/exposure
• Aimée Hill The Shepherds
• Alex F. Webb BLEU
• Alnis Stakle Aura Project
• Antoine Bruy Scrublands
• Antonio Olmos The Landscape of Murder
• Arnis Balcus Beyond the Blue River
• Artur Urbanski Live View
• Bénédicte Vanderreydt I am 14
• Birgit Krause Planetes
• Boreal Collective Subject(ive)
• Boris Eldagsen The Poems
• Caroline Douglas Entertainment for Men. Part II: Let’s See Here
• Chris Shaw Weeds of Wallasey
• Ciaran Jones Untitled Walks
• Ciril Jazbec On Thin Ice
• Craig Ames Back There
• David Fathi Anecdotal
• David Langham Illusions
• David Magnusson Purity
• Ed Watts Greenwood Mississippi 1973
• Eric Ledesma Drowning the Moon
• Except the Mirror Curated by Melanie Stidolph
• Farhad Berahman Uncertain
• Fan Shi San Great Wall
• Francesca Seraville Until Proven Otherwise
• George Miles Where Druids Died
• Giacomo Brunelli Eternal London
• Hayley Morris – Cafiero Wait Watchers
• Hani Amra Dis-Order
• Harold Diaz Graduations: An Archive
• Heather Miller Les Petites Morts (The Little Deaths)
• Henry E. Iddon A Place to Go
• Hua Weicheng End of Ashes
• Jack Carvosso Sorry I Was Miles Away
• Jana Romanova Shvilishvili
• Ji Hyun Kwon Guilty
• Jiehao Su Borderland
• Jill Quigley Cottages Of Quigley’s Point
• Johan Osterholm Reluctant Gravities, Mare Desiderii (The Sea of Dreams) and Lunagrams
• Justin Newhall Northern Studies
FESTIVAL
Format 2015 : Evidence
March 13th to April 12th, 2015
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby DE1 3AS
UK
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