This year the Brighton Photo Fringe brings you BPF16, the seventh edition of one of the largest and most inclusive photography festivals in the UK. An established month-long platform, the Photo Fringe festival supports photographers to organize self-curated exhibitions across the city of Brighton & Hove. The festival runs until October 30, 2016 so don’t miss your chance to see the following six exhibitions before they close.
Dana Ariel, Encountering Perforated Ground
OPEN16 Hub
Phoenix Brighton
10 – 14 Waterloo Place
Brighton
BN2 9NB
In partnership with Phoenix Brighton, Brighton Photo Fringe is proud to present its keynote exhibition, the OPEN16 SOLO, Encountering Perforated Ground by Dana Ariel, who was selected from an international open call.
Dana Ariel presents here new works from her project Encountering Perforated Ground. In these stunning landscapes, traces of past activities overlay and stain the ground, remaining invisible and concealed, as they tell a story of political erasure and displacement.
Ariel says: ‘The selected images were taken in Israel and Palestine between 2014-16. During this time, I have been repeatedly visiting the village of Fasa’il and the settlement of Peza’el, both have the same name; one in Hebrew, the other in Arabic. They are found on the border between Israel and Jordan, on perforated ground. They are not directly represented in this selection, but rather bind the works together. The images are the journey to these sites, they are the stain and shadow of my search.
The ongoing conflict over land and narrative leaves it traces in the landscape, as it transforms to a crisis of seeing. Borders, fire zones, observation posts, military bases, barriers, fences, and settlements are being constantly transformed, blurred, erased, and displaced. ‘Knowing’ the land, requires constant observation.
Upon my visits, I am repeatedly reminded that while I hold a camera in my hand, I am also constantly observed by both sides of the conflict. The sites represent a paradox of seeing, in which seeing immediately invites unseeing, both visually and politically. Edge-lands, perforated ground, disputed territory, and sites on the border are where militarisaton and play interwine. These sites could be seen as non-sites; abandoned, forgotten, buried or blurred. In the midst of the erasure process, I encounter the extraordinary, the unbelievable, and record its traces with the use of photography, print, and words.’
The Collectives and Festivals Hub
King’s House
Grand Parade
Hove
BN3 2LS
The Collectives and Festivals Hub hosts exhibitions by nine collectives and 3 international
Festivals. Here are a few examples: Reconnecting Arts, a platform that supports emerging Middle Eastern Creatives and here present a collective of 8 lens based artists from the Middle East and Diaspora.The collective Re-Listening, which brings together Emma Critchley, Helen Cammock and Tess Hurrell, who have met through their shared connection as Brighton University alumni. Their exhibition as part of BPF16 explores a variety of strategies that examine the complexities of experience and positioning. And festivals such as Cork Photo Festival, who here present the work of Derek Foott and Tina Horgan, who are the winners of the ‘Cork Photo 2016 Panel Choice Award’.
The Regency Townhouse
13 Brunswick Square
Hove
BN3 1EH
Here the visitor can see exhibitions by Sam Laughlin, Alex Bamford, Tom Heatley, Amelia Shepherd,Martin Seeds, David Sterry.
CONTROL presented by Miniclick
Sixty Eight Middle Street
68 Middle Street
Brighton
BN1 1AL
Working with guest curator Gordon MacDonald, Miniclick’sprogramme for BPF16 is on the theme of CONTROL.
OPEN16 Moving Image
Phoenix Brighton
10 – 14 Waterloo Place
Brighton
BN2 9NB
11 artists are showing 10-minute works on a loop. The featured artists are: Caroline Douglas, Matilda Harding-Kemp, Sara Hibbert, Maria Kapajeva, Altona Larionova, Elena Kollatou& Leonidas Toumpanos, AmakMahmoodian, Paul Simon Richards, Toby Smith, Sam Williams and Kyle Zeto.
Heather Buckley – “Irish Travellers’
Made Brighton
66 North Road
Brighton
BN1 1YD
An immersive experience, Heather shares her traveller encounters using large graphics, sound and salt prints. Heather has been interviewing and photographing the traveller community in Southern Ireland for the last two years. Fascinated by their unique culture, she aims to portray an alternative view point, focusing on our similiarites rather than our differences. Stories and narratives are woven into the exhibition bringing life to the characters portrayed.
Anna-Maria Pfab
Brighton Photo Fringe 2016
Through October 30, 2016
