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Oliver Frank Chanarin - A Perfect Sentence
A Perfect Sentence explores the shifting terrain of documentary photography: our drive for attention, the complexity of being seen and our anxiety of being overlooked. Commissioned and produced by Forma with eight partners, A Perfect Sentence is Oliver Frank Chanarin’s first UK solo exhibition and will see multiple presentations across the country, public acquisitions, a digital platform and a publication.
This new iteration of A Perfect Sentence at KARST interrogates the photographic image in the age of the algorithm. At the centre of this installation are two machines made by the artist in collaboration with Tom Cecil and Ruairi Glynn. They continuously hang and rehang framed photographs that are stored in stacks on the gallery floor. Appropriating the language of automation, the machines handle the images according to an inscrutable logic; identifying, sorting, displaying, juxtaposing and storing photographs for the duration of the exhibition.
The archive of images on display, only ever partially seen at any one time, was produced by Chanarin last year while travelling across the United Kingdom. Often finding himself on the margins – from suburban fetish groups, to carnival troupes in community halls, to gender activists protesting in the streets – his analogue camera became a tool for social exchange. Collaborative photoshoots gave way to chance encounters with strangers and friends, missteps and wilful attempts at getting lost in the world. The resulting photographs capture a subjective and intimate record of a nation in transition.
This new iteration of A Perfect Sentence at KARST interrogates the photographic image in the age of the algorithm. At the centre of this installation are two machines made by the artist in collaboration with Tom Cecil and Ruairi Glynn. They continuously hang and rehang framed photographs that are stored in stacks on the gallery floor. Appropriating the language of automation, the machines handle the images according to an inscrutable logic; identifying, sorting, displaying, juxtaposing and storing photographs for the duration of the exhibition.
The archive of images on display, only ever partially seen at any one time, was produced by Chanarin last year while travelling across the United Kingdom. Often finding himself on the margins – from suburban fetish groups, to carnival troupes in community halls, to gender activists protesting in the streets – his analogue camera became a tool for social exchange. Collaborative photoshoots gave way to chance encounters with strangers and friends, missteps and wilful attempts at getting lost in the world. The resulting photographs capture a subjective and intimate record of a nation in transition.
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Join us on Thursday 25 January for Oliver Frank Chanarin in conversation at 5.15pm and our A Perfect Sentence opening event from 6-8pm. The exhibition will be on view until Saturday 23 March (Wed-Sat, 11am-5pm).
Join us on Thursday 25 January for Oliver Frank Chanarin in conversation at 5.15pm and our A Perfect Sentence opening event from 6-8pm. The exhibition will be on view until Saturday 23 March (Wed-Sat, 11am-5pm).
KARST, 22 George Place, Millbay, Plymouth, Devon PL1 3NY
Fri 26 Jan to Sat 23 March