May 8 - June 7, 2009
Designer and photographer Joe Madeira uses a wide range of light sources including LEDs, glowsticks, bike headlights and keyring torches to draw with light usually at dusk or dawn. By using long camera exposures and performance he constructs intricate calligraphic interventions in urban environments.
The resulting images capture these micro-events as momentary acts of furtive choreography, exploring urban nightfall and our relationship with everyday urban architecture and attitudes to personal and public space.
These light drawings – repetitive, decorative and premeditated – make reference to performative painting such as that of Jackson Pollock and borrow and explore gestures in the same way as Fiona Rae. Madeira invites us to engage with these images as we might an abstract painting, but with the knowledge they have been made through an elaborate ritual of nocturnal mischief.
PRIVATE VIEW
7 May 2009
18.00 - 20.00
Opening times:
Monday to Saturday
09.30 - 17.30
Closed on Sunday
or by appointment
To make an appointment
call +44(0)20 8871 2272
or email The Gallery