- Venue
- Brewery Tap, University for the Creative Arts gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, August 28, 2014
- Ends
- Thursday, September 4, 2014
- Address
- Brewery Tap, 53 Tontine Street, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1JR
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- Steph Goodger and Julian Rowe
The artists’ mutual interest in social spaces, and spaces of containment in particular, is focussed here on two Victorian projects for the containment of the criminal underclass – the penitentiary and the prison hulk. The 19th century was a period in which starkly opposing philosophies of crime and punishment were vying for public acceptance. At one extreme, the view that criminality was inborn and incorrigible led to the hulk system and transportation; at the other, a belief that criminals could be redeemed through work, isolation, diet and the Bible produced the well-intentioned but often inhumane regimes of the Victorian penitentiaries. Many of the questions asked then are still unresolved today.
The resulting body of work contrasts Steph Goodger’s massive images of blackened, rotting hulks, which she presents as cross-sectioned chaotic islands of despair suspended in an undefined space, with Julian Rowe’s sublime penitentiaries – relentlessly geometrical universes of total surveillance and endless confinement.
Opening Times:
August 28 – August 30, 11.00-19.30
August 31 – September 4, 11.00-17.00
For further information contact:
Julian Rowe: t: 01892 891314 m: 07979 215731
https://www.facebook.com/events/268388710016490/
www.stephgoodger.com
www.julianrowe.co.uk
