On home and heritage: ‘Lovely Experiments’ at London Art Fair’s Photo50

This was the “start line” for his or her imaginative and prescient of the exhibition which asks “comparable questions as to what do home and place imply to girls who come from a variety of diasporic heritages”. And concepts of home have modified significantly, significantly lately. When requested about their choice to incorporate a number of generations of ladies and non-binary photographers, they clarify that “approaches to the home house have modified as second and third-generation artists have thought of their heritage – from the earliest work, which document the ‘entrance room’ to up to date photos of the choice membership scene, the place there’s a ‘home away from home’”. They go on to say that “though not at all times the case, it has historically been girls who’ve wanted to create secure areas for themselves and their communities”.

Additionally essential for Odubanjo and Barron was enabling every photographer to specific themselves with out limitation. Although the artworks “resonate with each other via the overarching theme”, every artist’s works are “very completely different explorations”. “We wished the displays of the works to replicate this and enable room for experimentation of their individualities – one thing which can not at all times be the case in group exhibitions,” they make clear. As such, the photographers had been inspired to show their work in “new, risk-taking methods”, and to “mess around with alternative ways to current pictures to a wider viewers”. In the end, these are the questions the curators need exhibition guests to go away with: “The place do I really feel at home? The place do I belong? The place am I from and the place can I’m going? What’s my heritage?”.

London Art Honest and Photo50 will happen from 18 to 22 January 2023 at Enterprise Design Centre, London.