Event overview
A shifting crowd is an exhibition project autonomously proposed and delivered by 18 photographers, who studied for an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2018/2019.
The desire to come together marks the conclusive moment of one intense year of collaborative work, discussions, mutual discovery and communal growth. Yet, a final group exhibition was not required by the course’s plan: the project presented is an autonomous, collective process, emerged and developed outside the university context. It signals the participants’ desire to validate the individual work produced during the master as well as to prolong the group dynamic outside the classroom space. Photography and Urban Cultures is a degree programme that examines key ideas in the representation and evocation of contemporary city life through a practical engagement with the camera filtered by theoretical insights from debates in cultural and social theory. The outcomes are the photographers’ responses to the topic and, even though each installation derives from individual research, the ensemble of the works can be read through a unifying narrative.
The works in the exhibition function like multiple urban subjects that, seen from afar, can only be conceived as one only crowd. Hence, the title given to the exhibition, a crowd. A crowd that continuously shifts, because a crowd is never determined nor fixed; its shifting element is what constitutes it. Moreover, the shift in the title presents the -ing form that refers to the temporality researched by the project. A shifting crowd aims to contribute to the analysis of contemporary cities and to render explicit what otherwise would be lived with the negligence of those who, being too much within, risk to lose sight of the ongoing changes. Such aim is to be inscribed in the general project of contemporary art: to create visual means that visualize the present condition and facilitate today’s world cognition.
The exhibition space is comprised of three areas, which the catalogue names room A room B and room C. The layout of this exhibition creates dialogues through the juxtaposition of the works. Strictly human investigations will appear next to spatial research in the attempt of rendering at least in part the complexity and multi-layered form of the entangled urban jungle.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Sep 2019 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm | |
| 28 Sep 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 29 Sep 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 30 Sep 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 1 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 2 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 3 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 4 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 5 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 6 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 7 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00pm |
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