IN Salford

Year: 2014-15

Medium: Photography (2 colour images + more than 100 black and white images)

Dimensions: 2/3 (variable)

Description

IN Salford consists of a series of black and white photos of Salford and Manchester initially made as a form of reflecting upon the two cities and their complex industrial past and present during a winter art residency in Salford, England. Black and white was chosen in order to highlight the disjuncture between time and place that the artist observed throughout the cities. Many of the images appear as if they could have been taken at any time over the last 150 years. Black and white also seemed appropriate to present the wintry post-industrial landscape of the two cities.

The series is intended to be open in the form of presentation. The number of images, their order and associations with each other and their context changes. During the course of the residency, one photo per day from the series was posted on Facebook as a sort of visual blog. The photos in this case signal a process of discovery over time, but were also frequently starting points for other works produced during the residency. In the show at the end of the Salford residency, a smaller subset of the images was selected. They were installed throughout the gallery space in order to link all of the works in the show together and to highlight how the works produced during the residency inspired each other.