Once Removed: New work on location Manuela Barczewski Lizi Sánchez, Jane Ward

This exhibition at Unit 2 Gallery brought together new and recent work by three artists who have all recently completed postgraduate art studies in London. Featuring photography, sculpture, painting and digitally generated imagery, the artists’ work approaches the city from varying vantage points as a means of exploring perception, belonging and memory. Through various acts of displacement and using elements of reality and fantasy, the macro and micro, the incidental and the monumental, these artists provide highly original and inventive perspectives on ideas relating to the everyday and the built environment.

Manuela Barczewski’s stunning deadpan photographic tableaux of objects found abandoned in the street quietly provoke our powers of perception, whilst Lizi Sánchez’s sculptures evoke illusions of scale, through using an amalgam of ornamental and decorative forms found in architecture, monuments and shop displays. Jane Ward’s digitally generated images portray the city and countryside in uncertain states of transition.  In Once Removed, nothing quite reveals itself how we might expect it to; the familiar is rendered and reworked often with a underlying humour and irreverence which compels us to look again.

An illustrated brochure, featuring a text by Richard Hylton, accompaned this exhibition [ISBN 978-1-899764-94-5].

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