Vacant Positions No. 3 by Jo Dennis

About the work
Date of completion:
2018
Edition type:
Limited edition
Classification:
Photograph
Medium:
Giclee on Hahnemühle Photorag Paper
Dimensions:
50.04×37.05×0.1 cm

Provenance records
  • 27 Oct 2018 Edit
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  • 27 Oct 2018 Creation
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Artist statement:
These poetic images are created from two sets of photographs - one set was taken over the course of 5 years in derelict spaces in London and the other taken in summer 2017 on the Greek island of Skiathos. In this series of images Dennis utilises digital techniques to create multiple exposures of decayed, painted surfaces from derelict buildings in London with photographs of half built skeletal structures, abandoned buildings and construction sites in Greece. The Greek structures exist in a state of suspended animation, Dennis disrupts the images of these brutalist structures with the materiality of painterly surfaces. In this act she imbues memory and history to dwellings which have yet to be realised. Where the layered surfaces of walls in derelict houses give us a window into the lives of the people who have lived there and a narrative of place and humanity, the unfinished buildings of Skiathos speak of the unrealised potential of human endeavour.

... Jo Dennis

Biography: Jo Dennis studied at Norwich School of Art and Goldsmiths College London. Dennis has exhibited internationally and has been included extensively in group exhibitions including at the ICA and The Royal Academy of Arts, in London. Recent solo exhibitions include; A Kind of Solid Liquid, Sid Motion Gallery 2018, Solo display, Discovery - Photo London 2018, Solid Liquid, Peckham 24 2018, UK; Your feet in the air and your head on the ground, Peckham 24 2017, UK; Matter Out of Place at Sid Motion Gallery, UK, 2016 and Cropped Up at AMP Gallery, UK. Dennis lives and works between London and Amsterdam.