Once More With Feeling

Category
: Exhibitions
Date
: 18/04/08 - 15/06/08
Location
: 5 & 8 Great Newport Street
Postcode
: WC2H 7HY

Enjoy new exhibition 'Once More With Feeling' at the fantastic Photographers Gallery

oncemorewithfeeling_main.jpgOnce More With Feeling is a new exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery that features the work of Milena Bonilla, Oscar Munoz and many other talented photographers.

Once more with feeling explores the interwoven themes of memory, repetition and performance found in each artists' work.

Using video, photography and performance, the artists explore all aspects of life in Colombia - from the violent internal conflict to the humour, youth and playfulness of this troubled country.

Milena Bonilla's photographs document the colourful remnants of her anonymous performances of sewing torn seats on buses throughout Bogotá.

María Elvira Escallón's photo installation of the aftermath of a nightclub bombing is a lasting memorial to the 36 lives lost in the Colombian capital of Bogotá.

Juan PabloEcheverri's passport photos are the result of his daily visits to a photography studio. Accumulating over seven years this ongoing - perhaps lifelong - work uses both repetition and performance.

Juan Manuel Echavarría's videos include recordings of songs composed by country dwellers displaced by violent events and massacres, and also the witty interplay between two parrots taught to repeat endlessly the words war and peace.

Oscar Muñoz revives a forgotten archive of street photographs depicting everyday life in the city of Cali during the 1950s, 60s & 70s. In his video Re/trato he repeatedly attempts to draw a self-portrait in water on a hot pavement, but as the water evaporates the impossibility of his task becomes frustratingly evident.

María Isabel Rueda's black & white photographs document young Colombian Goths, a group of young people united in silent resistance to what is considered 'normal' Colombian lifestyle.

This exhibition is a joint collaboration with Impressions Gallery, Bradford. It is running at the Photographers Gallery from Friday April 18th to Sunday June 15th, the gallery is open Monday to Saturday from 11am to 6pm, till 8pm on Thursdays and Sunday 12pm to 6pm.

Find out more about events at the Photographer's Gallery.

How to get there

The closest tube station is located at Leicester Square.

If travelling by bus the 14, 19, 24, 29, 38 and 176 all serve Leicester Square.

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