Shoot - Making History
dal 11/6/2001 al 15/7/2001
Segnalato da
11/6/2001
Shoot - Making History
Gasworks Gallery, London
Ann-Marie LeQuesne has worked closely with Gasworks Gallery to produce Shoot, a project that explores the viewers' relationship to media imagery. Shoot investigates our interest in public and historical events and the role we play as spectators.
Re-enactments of a photograph taken at the execution of the Emperor Maximilian
in Mexico on June 19, 1867.
Ann-Marie LeQuesne has worked closely with Gasworks Gallery to produce Shoot, a
project that explores the viewers' relationship to media imagery.
Shoot
investigates our interest in public and historical events and the role we play
as spectators.
Ann-Marie has re-constructed the photograph taken at the execution of the
Emperor Maximilian, also the subject of several of Manet’s most famous
paintings.
Participants at the final re-enactment, which took place at Tate
Britain in April, were asked to replicate the positioning of the subjects in the
original photograph (a cartes de visite-photographic calling card).
The
resulting documentation will be exhibited at Gasworks Gallery alongside a copy
of the original image. Participants in Shoot will be issued with a copy of their
photograph, mirroring the wide distribution of cartes de visite in the 19th
century.
In the Crimean War and the American Civil War spectators regularly took picnic
baskets to the fields to watch the ongoing battle.
Photography enabled wider and
much larger audiences, and to assist the public in this new way of experiencing
events, early photographers often collaged spectators onto their images. For
Shoot, LeQuesne will continue this practice, adding both spectators and
participants.
Ann-Marie has worked on a range of projects that examine the social structures
behind the taking of photographs - the occasions that precipitate photographs and
the forms of interaction possible between the subject, photographer and viewer.
Recent projects include the Annual Group Photograph, an ongoing work which has
taken place at the Albert Hall, and the Millennium Dome.
Ann-Marie’s fourth
Annual Group Photograph will take place at Battersea Power station this Spring
and be exhibited at the Pump House Gallery May 4th - June 17th.
A catalogue, with an essay by Rachel Withers, will be published to coincide with
the exhibition Shoot at Gasworks Gallery.
Ann-Marie will give a talk at the National Gallery on July 2 and will compare
the documenting methods in Manet’s execution paintings with the photographs in
Shoot. All welcome, phone Gasworks for further details.
Preview June 12, 6-9 pm
Gasworks Gallery is open Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm
For further information or press images contact Louise Palmer or Fiona Boundy at
Gasworks
Shoot is supported by London Arts, Michael Dyer Associates, and the Royal
College of Art.
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