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Odd Times
dal 22/5/2001 al 17/6/2001
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22/5/2001

Odd Times

CGP London - Cafe Gallery, London

This is the opening exhibition of the Cafe Gallery in Southwark Park in its new incarnation as simply ‘The Gallery’. It features work by Simon Read, an artist who was a resident in Butlers Wharf in Southwark until it was burned down in 1979 and subsequently redeveloped. One intention in the show is to revisit aspects of his concerns then, and explore their continuity into the present day, working on the Suffolk Coast. Then as now, photography has taken a central role for him as has the building of his own camera apparatus. Starting as a misgiving over the extent to which orthodox photographic equipment prescribes a relationship with any subject, over the years this has become extended to encapsulate a whole discourse where photography performs a role parenthetic to the larger question of how, in our culture, power and control are gained through the act of rendering experience as information.


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This is the opening exhibition of the Cafe Gallery in Southwark Park in its new incarnation as simply ‘The Gallery’. It features work by Simon Read, an artist who was a resident in Butlers Wharf in Southwark until it was burned down in 1979 and subsequently redeveloped. One intention in the show is to revisit aspects of his concerns then, and explore their continuity into the present day, working on the Suffolk Coast. Then as now, photography has taken a central role for him as has the building of his own camera apparatus. Starting as a misgiving over the extent to which orthodox photographic equipment prescribes a relationship with any subject, over the years this has become extended to encapsulate a whole discourse where photography performs a role parenthetic to the larger question of how, in our culture, power and control are gained through the act of rendering experience as information.

It would be wise to say that the works themselves are not polemical. Reflecting the communities and landscapes the artist operates within, they afford a space to contemplate the act of converting reality to image, where the degree to which the self-conscious use of an idiosyncratic apparatus makes overt the role of the artist as broker. By using the commonplace the focus is transferred to the point at which we transform our world through predilection and prejudice.

In the early 20th century there was a retired sea captain living in Suffolk, who divided his time between acting as a river pilot and going fishing. By the nature of his occupation he was not always able to work the tides as did most other fishermen, which prompted the name of a new-built boat as the laconic "Odd Times".

Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 23rd May-Sunday 17th June 2001.
Private View: 6.30-8.30 pm, Tuesday 22nd May, 2001.
Exhibition Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm (closed Mondays/Tuesdays).

Tube: Canada Water on the Jubilee Line.
Buses: 1,47, 188, 199, 395, P13, 381.
The Gallery is fully accessible to people with disabilities

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