- Venue
- Manchester Central Library
- Starts
- Thursday, February 20, 2020
- Ends
- Saturday, April 25, 2020
- Address
- St. Peter’s Square Manchester, M2 5PD
- Location
- North West England
- Organiser
- Manchester Central Library
Paper Geographies is an exhibition at Manchester Central Library that brings together 12 artists who use photography to explore the relationships between materiality and place. The expanded field of photography is represented by works that challenge the medium’s own specificity; including documentary and appropriated imagery, performance and sculpture, moving image, analogue processes, digital and 3D animation. This diversity of practice asks the viewer to consider how the physicality of the photographic image impinges on our sense of place in the world.
Each of the artists in Paper Geographies proposes a critical relationship to place, whether local or global, real or imagined. By foregrounding the performative act of the image – its material agency over its representational qualities -they expose the interplay between image and place. Works address locations from China, India, Europe and the UK, and themes of globalisation, home, borders, migration, trade and the Anthropocene are explored.
