Jul 19, 2016
Far Rainbow, rocking out with bacofoil and food processor, at the Chalton Gallery’s first birthday celebrations on 9th July.
Photo by Ingrid Plum
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Far Rainbow, rocking out with bacofoil and food processor, at the Chalton Gallery’s first birthday celebrations on 9th July.
Photo by Ingrid Plum
Photo by Abigail Sidebotham of ‘History’s Glimmer’ by Simone Rowat, being screened at the Chalton Gallery as part of Zero Wave’s contribution to the gallery’s first birthday celebrations.
‘History's Glimmer’ was a 16mm film commissioned for a photography biennale taking place in the Swiss alps. All of the objects in the film are from my great uncles private archive of objects and images he collected in post WW2 Germany.
I was thinking about the alpine landscape in terms of its role as a historical symbol in the culture of nationalism and accelerating industrialism in the rise of national socialism in Germany.
In their obsessive collection, these fragments of nature also became symbols which held some kind of potential in healing or evading trauma - fragments of lost or false history.
[text by Simone Rowat]
