Currently on view at Michael Hoppen Gallery in London is Things in a room: an ethnography of the insignificant, Spanish artist Manuel Franquelo’s first solo show in the United Kingdom, and consisting of six large-scale photographic pieces from his last work in progress.
The pieces from this series, produced through techniques borrowed from scientific photography and endowed with an uncanny hyperreal presence, are an inquiry into the things that have accumulated, over the years, in the nooks and crannies of a space inhabited by the artist.
In this project, Franquelo articulates his interest in time, memory, the subconscious, and what the French writer Georges Perec (1936-82) grouped under the category of the ‘infra-ordinary’, that is: everything that, because of its obviousness and insignificance, remains hidden beneath the normal threshold of perception.
