This group exhibition is curated by Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, who is engaged with practice-led PhD research at the Slade School of Art in London, UK, where she is the recipient of a UCL-ROS Scholarship, 2023. This public presentation on a climate justice related theme is the second iteration of her intersectional curatorial programme. Her initial group exhibition Intersectional Geographies: Extraction was shown at the Martin Parr Foundation.
The exhibition features 25 nationally and internationally acclaimed photographers, which comprises Vanessa Winship, Mandy Barker, Laura Pannack, Graham Silveria Martin, Wendy Aldiss, Alan Conteh, Peter Coles, John Darwell, Mieke Strand, Patricia and Angus Macdonald, Miharu Micha, Keleenna Onyeaka, George Dyer, Sean Wyatt, Kim Shaw, George Georgiou, Imogen Bloor, Naomi James, Sabes Sugunasabesan, Tilaxan Tharmapalan, Armelle Skatulski, Colin Buttimer, Mike Perry, David Birkin, and Lucas Gabellini-Fava.
Armelle Skatulski, Untitled, from the series Absent Machine, 2017-2022. Digital C-Type from medium format negative, 60 x 70 cm.
Absent Machine
A print from a medium format negative of an abandoned coal mine in the Northeast of France. Absent Machine explores the extensive waste of infrastructural resources linked to de-industrialisation - in this instance the dissolution of Charbonnages de France, the French National Coal Board. It contrasts two modalities of becoming for infrastructures of extraction - the archive and the ruin - inviting differing forms of affective engagements.
Images courtesy of Photofrome.