Stephen Hughes
dal 11/1/2002 al 23/2/2002
Segnalato da
11/1/2002
Stephen Hughes
Focal Point Gallery (old location), Southend-on-Sea
Photographs. Buildings as apparitions, gleaming white apartment blocks stranded by the shore, lone figures drifting and daydreaming across the barren edges of newly built cities. Such scenes dominate the powerful new photographs of Stephen Hughes. In this major solo exhibition Hughes introduces an outstanding body of work produced over the last four years at sites all over Europe.
photographs
Buildings as apparitions, gleaming white apartment blocks stranded by the
shore, lone figures drifting and daydreaming across the barren edges of
newly built cities. Such scenes dominate the powerful new photographs of
Stephen Hughes. In this major solo exhibition Hughes introduces an
outstanding body of work produced over the last four years at sites all over
Europe.
Hughes photographs are dedicated to the peripheral, marginal zones and
strange disconnected gaps of our contemporary social landscape. In these
places people often betray the ambiguous signs of despair and longing: a
family hold hands as they peer over Beachy Head, edging towards oblivion;
the sci-fi architecture of Atomium in Brussels looms over a young couple as
they embrace in a featureless park; and a child lays prone, gazing through
the glass roof of Sunderland's Glass Museum.
Many of Hughes's images reveal coastal sites, misty windblown places of
loneliness and reverie that seem to harbour the residues of both nature and
culture. Here are architectural visions that have run aground on rocky
outcrops; semi-developed ore extravagant and incongruous, the buildings
become metaphors for a human psychology of disenchantment, of dreams
washed away by the sea.
Stephen Hughes: Photographs has been organised by De La Warr Pavilion
in collaboration with Photoworks.
A catalogue is available from the gallery to
accompany the exhibition.
The exhibition has been supported by South East Arts, Rother District
Council, East Sussex County Council and Kent Institute of Art and Design.
monday - friday 9am - 7pm.
sat 9am - 5pm
admission free
Focal Point Gallery
Southend Central Library
Victoria Avenue
Southend-on-Sea
Essex
ss2 6ex
telephone 01702 612 621 ex 207
fax 01702 469 241
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