​Factual Enigma - Central LIP
23-28 April 2019
Private View: Thursday 25 April 6-9pm

Creating or consuming stories appears to be a basic human need and we devise all kinds of means by which to do so. It is therefore not surprising that both makers and viewers of photographs try to concoct or tease stories from them. Yet since stories depend on time lines, still images do not easily lend themselves to narration. It can be argued that they effectively sidestep or even thwart any such attempts on our part. The stories a photographer may wish to tell with a series of images will never quite tally with the ones the viewers might construct from them, even when there are titles to guide us. David Campany, who has spent years thinking and writing about photography, states: “Hitchcock was the master of suspense but photographs suspend in a very different way. They show but they don’t tell. They describe but they don’t explain. They are factual enigmas.”

See for yourself what stories are evoked for you and, if you can, come and compare them with those of the photographers, who will make themselves available on the afternoon of Saturday 27th April at Espacio Gallery.

Kathryn Alkins, Robin Barr, Hady Bayoumi, Héloïse Bergman,
Dorota Boisot, Chris Burrows, Simon Butcher, Jan Cylwik,
Steve Jones, Teresa Levitt, Hugh Look, Rashida Mangera,
Heather Martin, Frankie McAllister, Ingrid Newton, Jim Paterson,
Edith Templeton, Geoff Titley, Alec Wyllie

Curated by Krystina Stimakovits

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​Coming next:

Unlimited
30 April - 5 May 2019
Private View: Thursday 2 May 6-9pm

The artists have been invited to present artworks exploring an array of unlimited possibilities. Unconfined interpretations, styles and genres will excite your senses and perhaps, lead you to reflection. 

The exhibition brings together an exciting range of artworks showcasing painting, printmaking, photography, installation, 3D and mixed media.
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Rina Bakis, Héloïse Bergman, Raffaele Coletta, Gio Cuison,
Abbie Denton, Joe Ellwood, Nicola Gurlacz, Shahina Jaffer, 
Marc Martyr, Selina Mayer, Parjam Parsi, Ivan Rérat, 
​Kirstie Tebbs, Nichola Tuohy, Adam Turk, 
Sonya Blanche Vassell, Jonathon David Wilks, David Woolfson

Curated by Carlos de Lins