New Photographic Works on Paper : Graeme Cooper

A site specific installation for Cube's gallery 3 exploring the fundamental tenets of modern architecture - the manipulation of space and light - through a series of photograms in the spirit of Modernist and Bauhaus pioneer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

"What makes photography different from other art forms is that it deals with light directly and not at second hand. Indeed the photograph could be said to be made entirely of light. That is, a photgraph is not made up of fragments of the visible world but fragments of light." Laslo Moholy-Nagy

"On first seeing these pieces most people are confused as they expect photographs to be the record of an event, a decisive moment, planned or otherwise. What they do not realise is that is exactly what they are witnessing.

"With this work I want to achieve a sanctuary, an oasis of calm where the viewer can rest, collect themselves, take strength from nothing, yet still feel one of the most basic of human emotions: the need to find somewhere to feel safe.

"We have always left evidence of our existence. And in photography it is marked by the death of a moment." Graeme Cooper 1998

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