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1/10/2015

Three exhibitions

The Photographers' Gallery, London

Noémie Goudal
Southern Light Stations

This exhibition presents the artist’s first major solo show in London, and consists of entirely new and previously unseen works.

It continues Noémie Goudal’s interest in manmade interventions into the natural world, through photographs which portray complex and ambiguous constructions created by the artist within the landscape.

Reflecting a fascination with our relationship to the sky, the exhibition draws upon a rich history of myths, legends, religious symbolism and early scientific theories. Through photographs, stereoscopes and architectural installations, the exhibition aims to explore the intangible nature of celestial space - long considered a mirror of terrestrial turmoil as well as an expression of the sacred.

The exhibition is supported by the Institut français, Fluxus and the Noémie Goudal Exhibition Circle.

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Burden of Proof
The Construction of Visual Evidence

The exhibition examines the way photographic images have been harnessed as evidence in instances of crimes or acts of violence suffered by individuals or groups.

The use of photography as factual evidence in the courtroom became an essential tool in the service of justice from the late 1800s. Over the following century however, the reliability of photographic ‘facts’ were ardently debated, sometimes legitimately contested and often contradicted.

The exhibition presents eleven case studies spanning the period from the invention of ‘metric’ photography of crime scenes in the 19th century to the reconstruction of a drone attack in Pakistan in 2012 using digital and satellite technologies. These offer an analysis of the historical and geopolitical contexts in which the images appeared, as well as their purpose, production process and dissemination.

This exhibition contains images that some viewers might find disturbing.

The exhibition has an accompanying catalogue Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence, £38.50.

The exhibition has been co-produced by LE BAL, in Paris, The Photographers’ Gallery, in London and the Nederlands Fotomuseum, in Rotterdam.

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ScanLAB Projects

‘anatomists call the pig “horizontal human” because of what we share inside’
- G. Price, The Red Hourglass: Lives of Predators, New York, Delta, 1998

Horizontal Humans is a new work from ScanLAB Projects commissioned for the Gallery’s Media Wall as part of our forthcoming season on Forensic Imaging. The project invites us to witness a series of forensic experiments monitoring bodily decomposition through the robotic eyes of a 3D laser scanner. In the experiments pigs act as anatomical substitutes for human bodies found in criminal investigations. Under the scanner’s forensic gaze, the undulations of the decaying animals are translated into a dramatic and visually arresting 3D pointcloud. Through this process the artists explore the scanner as both a tool for ‘objective’ scientific measurement and a highly subjective imaging device.

ScanLAB Projects is a London based design studio founded by Matthew Shaw and William Trossell experimenting with the potential of large-scale 3D. For the last 5 years they have been turning the relentless, machinic eye of the 3D scanner on anything and everything - from giant mirrored sculptures, Arctic ice flows, Roman Sewers and dancers. Their practice explores the world through the eyes of this post lenticular technology, creating animations, images, objects and installations in response to the data they capture. Their work has been broadcast internationally and exhibited at leading cultural institutions across the world.

This exhibition contains images that some viewers might find disturbing.

ScanLAB Projects thank the UCLAN teams for their generosity and support: Peter Cross, Dr. Michael Wysocki, TRACES students of summer 2015

Image: Murder of Monsieur Canon, boulevard de Clichy, 9 December 1914 © Archives

The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
Mon – Sat 10.00 – 18.00, Thu 10.00 – 20.00, Sun 11.30 – 18.00
Free entry before 12:00 Daily
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