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14/6/2002

Jan Svenungsson

Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

The Liverpool Project

What is it that defines a city as a European Capitial of Culture? It was this question that faced Swedish photographer Jan Svenungsson in 1999, on being commissioned to photograph the nine European Capitals of Culture for 2000. Jan approached his odyssey through Europes culture capitals Reykjavik, Brussels, Helsinki, Santiago de Compestela, Prague, Bologna, Bergen, Avignon and Krakow by directing his attention to places and buildings within them that expressed a particular intensity to him. In each case however he was searching for different pieces of the same story what it is that defines a Capital of Culture?

After seeing the results of this project in the exhibition Nine Cities in 2000, we commissioned Jan to photograph Liverpool, itself in the process of bidding to become a European Capital of Culture for 2008. For Jan, Liverpool was an unknown but fascinating entity, a city immersed in a sense of modern European mythology. And so in June 2001, Jan came to Liverpool, walking, riding and travelling along the tracks of my curiosity through this bewildering drama of contrasts, confusion and beauty. The resulting Liverpool Project portrays a city that does not necessarily exist outside of the photographs contained within, but one searching for its own pieces of the same story that which defines a European Capital of Culture.

Jan Svenungsson will be discussing the Liverpool Project at Open Eye on Saturday 15 June at 2pm.

Admission Free.

Photographs from the original Nine Cities exhibition will be on display at the Conservation Centre, NMGM during this exhibition.

Open Eye Gallery,
28-32 Wood Street
Liverpool

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