METAMORPHOSIS Press Release

The first London Group photographic exhibition in 106 years.
An exhibition presenting photographic diptychs by fifteen artists from the London Group and two guest artists as part of the Waterloo Festival.
Co-curated by Paul Tecklenberg and Darren Nisbett.

The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London, SE1 8TJ.
Saturday 8th June – Thursday 20th June, 2 – 6 pm

P.V. Monday 10th June, 6 – 9 pm Brut and Brut cocktails
Artists Talk Monday 17th June 6.30 pm
Q&A Thursday 20th June 7 pm with Farah Mohammoud & Catherine Dormor

Metamorphosis can mean the transformation of a caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly or in Kafka’s case a man who changes into a grotesque insect who eats rotting food. In the context of this show, it is about the transformation that accuses between two photographs that are hung side by side or one above the other. The dichotomy could explore the passage of time, day/night, figurative/abstract, positive/negative, inside/outside, still/active and many other forms of change and transformation both physical and psychological. It is in that moment when the viewer observes and tries to make sense that the art work exists beyond the binary pairing.

There is a rich and diverse content within this exhibition that utilises both analogue and digital means, conceptual and documentary approaches, hand-made and high-tech and the photograph both as source material and output. From analogue black and white images which sit firmly within the traditional genre of capturing a moment - the photograph as a memento of the absent, to the digital decay of images that have been copied, pasted, reproduced, compressed and reformatted, this exhibition explores what photography has been, is and might be. Perhaps above all this exhibition points to the fact that artists continue to reflect upon methodology, myth and circumstance in their making of work that is entirely relevant to now. This is the first photographic show in the history of the group founded in 1913.

The LG artists showing are; Carol Wyss, David Theobald, Paul Tecklenberg, Simon Read, Darren Nisbett, Charlotte C Mortensson, Sam Jarman, Jane Humphrey, Susan Haire PLG, Vaughan Grylls, Genetic Moo, Eric Fong, Angela Eames, Stephen Carley, Vanya Balogh and invited guests Carl Wilson and Andrew Cooper.