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10 Nov 2022
Paris Photo
Galeria Joan Prats, Grand Palais Ephemere, Paris, 10 - 13 Nov 2022
Two works will be on display at Paris Photo with Galeria Joan Prats at their stand.
The Platespinner, 1987
In the Course of Time - Barn South of Poland, 1995
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10 Sep 2022
Group Exhibition
The Magic Carpet. For Joan de Muga
Galeria Joan Prats, 15 Sep - 05 Oct 2022
Hannah is part of group show The Magic Carpet an homage to Joan de Muga.
You can watch a video about the exhbition and Joan de Muga here
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25 Jul 2022
Performance
Portico Quartet Ensemble with Hannah Collins
Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet
Barbican Centre, London
29 Sep 2022
Hannah is collaborating with London-based instrumental group Portico Quartet on an audio-visual work which will be performed at the Barbican Centre.
"Mercury Prize nominated Portico Quartet and Turner Prize nominated artist Hannah Collins present the world premiere performance of their new audio-visual work Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet.
In this profound, collaborative audio-visual performance of Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet, Hannah Collins’ sensitive, mesmerizing images of Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile, find a gently resonant dialogue with Portico Quartet’s 2021 album Terrain, a body of work that represents one of the most complex and beautiful pieces the band have composed, shifting through different musical worlds with an insistent pulse and horizontal movement. "
Tickets for the performance can be purchased here
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Group Exhibition
Art Basel
2022
Hannah's work Family is on view at Art Basel at Maureen Paley —
ART BASEL 2022
Maureen Paley is pleased to participate in Art Basel 2022.
Stand J15
Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10
4058 Basel
Switzerland
Private days (by invitation only):
14 – 15 June 2022, 11 am – 8 pm
Vernissage (by invitation only):
15 June 2022, 5 – 8 pm
Public days:
16 – 19 June 2022, 11 am – 7 pm
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25 Jul 2022
Group Exhibition
Hole in the ground
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
26 May – 23 Jun, 2022
Hannah's work is included in Hole In The Ground, a collective exhibition that brings together works by Cabrita, Camila Cañeque, Hannah Collins, Pablo del Pozo, Mercedes Pimiento and Fernando Prats.
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Words
Doris Derby obituary, The Guardian
Hannah wrote an obituary in The Guardian for Doris Derby when she passed away earlier this year. Read it here
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Radio
Hannah on Doris Derby, Last Word, BBC Radio 4
08/04/22
Hannah was a guest on Last Word on BBC Radio 4 talking about the life of Doris Derby. Listen back to the program here
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Reviews
Doris Derby, Mack
Read reviews of Doris Derby's A Civil Rights Journey :
‘The story behind Derby’s wonderful, intimate pictures is enmeshed with the rest of her extraordinary life … Her experience also provides a revealing snapshot of the rupture that America went through in the 1960s and 70s.‘ The Guardian
‘Many of [Derby’s] photographs from this time feel very joyful – full of positive energy and activity – or otherwise depict everyday scenes, quite removed from the Civil Rights protests and all the violence the black community was experiencing‘ Apollo
‘A firsthand account of the advancements and setbacks of the movement from an incisive photographer on the frontlines.‘ Brooklyn Rail
‘Derby’s searing and intimate photos capture a crucial moment in history, but they aren’t trapped in the past … her photos feel especially poignant when seen from today’s fraught political climate.‘ Hyperallergic
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04 Nov 2021
Review
El Tiempo del Fuego, Hundred Heroines
Hannah's show El Tiempo del Fuego is examined on the website Hundred Heroines.
You can read the piece here
Posted on
04 Nov 2021
Book
Doris Derby, The Guardian
Doris Derby's book, published by Mack Books is out now. The Guardian have run a piece celebrating Doris's photographs which you can see here
Posted on
16 Sept 2021
Installation Views
El Tiempo del Fuego
Maureen Paley, London
15 Sep – 24 Oct, 2021
Studio M, London
15 Sep – 09 Oct, 2021
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06 Sept 2021
Exhibition
El Tiempo del Fuego
Maureen Paley, London
15 Sep – 24 Oct, 2021
Studio M, London
15 Sep – 09 Oct, 2021
Maureen Paley is pleased to announce a new exhibition by Hannah Collins that will be presented across the gallery’s two London spaces.
"One evening whilst walking through the forest with the shaman he carefully cut a groove in a copal tree. He lit it to produce a small, controlled flickering flame that could sustain light but did not burn the damp tree. As we walked on he lit trees as we went to show us the way back from our night-time excursion and extinguished them as we no longer needed the light."
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06 Sept 2021
Book
Doris Derby, Mack Books
Until Oct 08, 2021
Hannah Collins is working with 1960’s veteran Civil Rights activist Doris Derby to edit and narrate a journey through the civil rights era in Mississippi, the book will be published by MACK.
Available to pre-order, the book is launching in October. Pre-order the book here
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06 Sept 2021
Film Cycle
Zumzeig Cinema, Barcelona
'The importance of Barcelona for flamenco is constituent. From the dance troupe of the first Liceu to Carmen Amaya, from Albéniz to Vicente Escudero or Antonio Gades, the Chinatown, Catalan rumba or Barcelona d'Ocaña, as much or more than the new generation of voices (Duquenque , Mayte Martín, Miguel Poveda, Rosalía, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, etc.) that continues to expand the territory.'
Hannah's work 'La Mina' and 'Current History' is included in the film cycle.
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06 Sept 2021
Exhibition
Casa Arabe, Cordoba
Until Oct 08, 2021
'Starting on May 27, Casa Árabe will be holding this exhibition in Córdoba. Curated by José Tono Martínez in Madrid, it includes layout plans, models, photographs and books by the man known as the “architect of the poor.'
Hannah's work 'I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head' is included in this exhibition.
https://www.ondacero.es/programas/gente-viajera/
https://atalayar.com/content/el-camino-de-santiago-y-el-anillo-de-giges%C2%A0%C2%A0
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22 Feb 2021
Gallery
Maureen Paley is pleased to announce the representation of Hannah Collins
'The gallery builds upon an early connection with the artist having first shown her work in an exhibition Evidence in the Streets – War Damage Volumes in 1984.
Hannah Collins’ large format black-and-white photographs brought her to prominence during the 1980s and she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1993. Her work draws attention to historical and social frameworks, addressing this through a wide range of subjects and geographical locations with images of interiors, exteriors, interactions and specific objects. Examples of her work are held in many collections including the Dallas Art Museum (USA), MACBA (Spain), Pompidou Centre (France), Reina Sofia Museum (Spain), Sprengel Museum (Germany), Tate (UK), and Walker Art, Center (USA) amongst others.
In 2015 a retrospective of her work was shown at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, in conjunction with the award of the Spectrum Prize and travelled to Camden Art Centre, London and Baltic Centre, Newcastle. Her latest work – I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head, has been shown at SF MOMA San Francisco (2019), Tapies Foundation Barcelona (2019) and at the Rotterdam Film Festival (2020). Recently Hannah Collins and Paul Goodwin co-curated We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK (2020).'
Posted on
22 Feb 2021
Reviews
We Will Walk, Frieze Magazine
Frieze Magazine has included 'We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South' in its top 10 shows in the UK and Ireland in 2020.
Read what they said here
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22 Feb 2021
Exhibition
Casa Arabe, Madrid
Until May 16, 2021
'Starting on January 28, Casa Árabe will be holding this exhibition curated by José Tono Martínez in Madrid, including layout plans, models, photographs and books by the man known as the “architect of the poor.'
Hannah's work 'I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head' is included in this exhibition.
More information here
Posted on
28 Aug 2020
Reviews
We Will Walk, Turner Contemporary
A selection of reviews of the critically acclaimed exhibition We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South.
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/
Forbes
Frieze
https://www.frieze.com/
Apollo Magazine
https://www.apollo-magazine.
ArtLyst
https://www.artlyst.com/whats-
The Art Newspaper
https://www.theartnewspaper.
Studio International
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28 Aug 2020
Article
Curating and photographing art and resistance in the American South, Burlington Contemporary
An article by Hannah, about the exhibition she curated at Turner Contemporary, We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South is online at the Burlington Contemporary website.
Head here to read the article.
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28 Aug 2020
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28 Aug 2020
Upcoming Exhibition
Think about the size of the universe, then brush your teeth and go to bed
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, 09 Jun - 09 Sep, 2020
Works by Hannah are included in group show Think about the size of the universe, then brush your teeth and go to bed at Galeria Joan Prats in Barcelona. The exhibition runs until 09 Sep 2020.
More information can be found here
Posted on
13 May 2020
Online Exhibition Video
We Will Walk — Video Overview
As Turner Contemporary is closed due to the ongoing situation, there is now a short video available to watch online, which shows some of the scope of the exhibition.
Watch the video here
Posted on
29 Mar 2020
Forthcoming Exhibition
I will make up a Song and Sing it in a Theatre with the Night Air above my Head
Casa Arabe, Madrid, September 2020
I will make up a Song and Sing it in a Theatre with the Night Air above my Head will be showing at Casa Arabe in Madrid, from September 2020.
More information to follow.
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29 Mar 2020
Review
We Will Walk, Forbes
"This powerful exhibition was the idea of British artist Hannah Collins, who travelled extensively through urban and rural Alabama to interview makers and take photographs of their work. The artists on show here lived through the Civil Rights struggle and their work is characterised by the reuse of materials."
Head here to read the review
Posted on
13 Feb 2020
Review
The Arts Newspaper
'We abstracted our experience—that is how we saved ourselves': emotional opening at Margate's show of African American art
Head here to read the review
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13 Feb 2020
Talk
The Photographers Gallery – In conversation with Doris Derby, 06 March 2020, 18:30
Join the American civil rights photographer for this special talk
Known for her work during the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, this is a unique opportunity to hear from activist and documentary photographer Dr Doris Derby. Derby is widely recognised for her explorations of Black history and culture, producing thousands of photographs documenting the struggles and hopes of African Americans from the 1960s through to the 1970s.
This public talk coincides with the 81-year-old’s inclusion in We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South at Turner Contemporary in Margate, which features a selection of these photographs. Curated by artist Hannah Collins and theorist and researcher Paul Goodwin, the exhibition is open 7 February to 3 May 2020.
Book tickets here
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13 Feb 2020
Feature
The Guardian - Lanre Bakare, 05 Feb 2020
"From lynching and slavery to the civil rights movement, Alabama’s artists expressed the momentous events they lived through – as a landmark new exhibition reveals."
Read the full article here
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13 Feb 2020
Feature
The Guardian –Doris Derby, In Pictures
'Through the lens of civil rights photographer Doris Derby – in pictures
The activist, photographer and former academic Doris Derby lived and worked in the southern US at the height of the civil rights era. Her images capture not the protests of the 60s but the everyday realities of black lives at that time. Here she talks us through some of her photographs.'
Read the full article here
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31 Jan 2020
Exhibition
Mushrooms: The art, design and future of fungi, London, 30 Jan - 26 Apr 2020
"Bringing together the work of over 40 leading artists, designers and musicians, Mushrooms looks at fungi’s colourful cultural legacy, as well as the promise it offers to reimagine our relationship with the planet."
Contributing artists include Takashi Murakami, Haroon Mirza, Hannah Collins, Adham Faramawy, Annie Ratti, Simon Popper, Jae Rhim Lee, Graham Little, Seana Gavin, Perks and Mini, and Mae-ling Lokko.
Head here for more information.
Posted on
16 Jan 2020
Festival
I will make up a song... 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, 24 Jan 2020 & 31 Jan 2020
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with night air above my head will be shown at the 49th International Film Festival in Rotterdam in early 2020 as part of the Wait and See program. It will be shown on 24 Jan as well as 31 Jan. For tickets and more information head here
Posted on
16 Jan 2020
Review
'Revisiting an Architectural Landmark, Hannah Collins asks whom does it serve' – KQED Arts
KQED arts have reviewed I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with night air above my head at SFMOMA. Read the review here
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26 Nov 2019
Festival
I will make up a song... 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, 22 Jan - 2 Feb 2020
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with night air above my head will be shown at the 49th International Film Festival in Rotterdam in early 2020 as part of the Wait and See program. Wait and See is part of the official “Perspectives” section of IFFR, and is curated by IFFR programmer Edwin Carels. For more information head here
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26 Nov 2019
Review
Art Agenda: 'I Will Make Up a Song' at SFMOMA by Monica Westin
Read Monica Westin's review of 'I Will Make Up a Song' at SFMOMA on Art Agenda here
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02 Sept 2019
Newspaper Article
La Vanguardia
Hannah Collins current exhibition in Barcelona is featured in spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.
To read the full article head here
Posted on
18 July 2019
Exhibition
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head
SFMOMA, San Francisco, 31 August 2019- 05 January 2020
Hannah Collins presents a new work made in collaboration with Duncan Bellamy.
"This presentation brings together still photography and an immersive video installation exploring the work of Egyptian Modernist architect Hassan Fathy. Searching for models that might address the urgent contemporary problems of housing, poverty, and environmental sustainability, Collins (English, b. 1956) reconsiders Fathy’s mid-twentieth-century utopian experiments in sustainable architecture and rural community building at New Gourna and New Baris in Egypt. Her installation underscores the visual and philosophical connections between the ancient Egyptian structures and Fathy’s historically grounded, forward-looking designs, and prompts us to meditate on the past as well as contemplate new solutions for the future."
For information about the exhibition please visit:
https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/hannah-collins-i-will-make-up-a-song/
Posted on
16 July 2019
Prize
The Rose Award for Photography
Hannah Collins has been awarded The Rose Award for Photogrpahy prize for her work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Nelson Mandela’s Teenage Home, National Monument. The award is "for a photograph or series of photographs".
Posted on
23 May 2019
Exhibition
Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London, 10 June - 12 August 2019
Hannah Collins is showing two large scale works in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. The exhibition runs from 10 June - 12 August.
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24 Feb 2019
Touring Exhibition
Feast for the Eyes, The Story of Food in Photography
"Feast for the Eyes explores the rich history of food as a subject in photography. From basic sustenance to decadent feasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. Eating is one of the most mundane and profane acts, yet it is also central to our rituals, religions, and celebrations. Food reflects our desires and fantasies; it can stand in for sex, be a signal of status, or engage in our politics. As a subject that is commonly at hand, food has been and continues to be widely depicted. Today, photographing your food has never been more popular, and through photo-sharing on social media, photography has become part of the dining experience. And photographs of food—much like food itself—can raise deep-seated questions about issues such as family, tradition, domesticity, wealth, poverty, gender, race, pleasure, revulsion, and consumption."
Tour schedule below. More information can be found here
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Louisiana Museum of Art and Science
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
June 13 – September 16, 2018
FOAM
Amsterdam, Netherlands
December 21, 2018 – March 6, 2019
C/O Berlin
Berlin, Germany
June – September 2019
The Photographers’ Gallery
London
October 2019 – January 2020
Hasselblad Foundation
Göteborg, Sweden
February 21 – May 3, 2020
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17 Jan 2019
Exhibition / New Work
Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, Spain — June 2019
SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA — August 2019
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head.
A new audio visual work about the work of Egyptian modernist architect Hassan Fathy at New Gourna and New Baris in Egypt. Fathy pioneered sustainable mud architecture and new ways of looking at community for rural people from the 1950s onwards in Egypt and beyond. Work developed with musician Duncan Bellamy.
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17 Jan 2019
Exhibition
Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona
An exhibition of new work. From 14th March onwards.
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08 Oct 2018
Public Work
Ford Foundation, New York
A large scale newly made print of one of a series of four works that describe Nelson Mandela’s birthplace in Mvezo in South Africa is being installed at the newly renovated Ford Foundation. The iconic building designed by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo completed in 1968 will become the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice at 430 East 43rd Street. The newly renovated building will re-open to the public in November 2018.
The new print is 548cm wide and will sit outside the Mandela meeting room.
"I undertook a journey to understand my own act of looking, travelling to South Africa I visited and photographed a monument built to celebrate the birthplace of Nelson Mandela in Mvezo in the Transvaal. The site itself is remote, over four hours on dirt roads cross country. Later I was taken to see the family who supported Mandela through his teenage years and photographed the hut he made his home at this time. This is now a national monument though there is little to suggest its status or to celebrate its occupant except a few random books. These four pictures are part of Parallel."
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08 Oct 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
San Sebastian
Hannah Collins will participate in the exhibition — Bestea Naiz / El otro soy yo / The other is me
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08 Oct 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
Foto Museum, Winterthur
25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, will be running from 20 October 2018 to 10 February 2019.
The exhibition will feature works from the Winterthur museum collection, selected by 25 individuals as well as Fotomuseum’s new director, Nadine Wietlisbach.
More information on the exhibition can be found here
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08 Oct 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
Swiss Cottage Library, London
Hannah Collins is one of four artists who have produced posters for Swiss Cottage Library a classic building designed by Sir Basil Spence.
The posters all focus on Equality Place Power and Identity. Hannah Collins spent time with children living on the Alexander and Ainsworth Estate designed by Neave Brown and opened in 1978 the year she finished college and where her studio is situated
She asked them to show her how they felt about the architecture that surrounds them.
The posters will go on show on the 14th October.
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19 Sep 2018
Upcoming Talk
Hay Festival, Segovia
'The impact of the arts, culture and the humanities on coexistence and cosmopolitanism'
Along with AC Grayling and William Kingswood, Hannah will be in conversation with Santiago Íñiguez as part of the Hay Festival in Segovia on Friday 21st September.
More information and tickets can be found here
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09 Jul 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
Turner Contemporary, Margate
Hannah Collins is working with Turner Contemporary in Margate to curate We Will Walk - Art of Protest and Resistance in the American South to open in Margate in January 2020 then touring.
The exhibition project aims to illuminate the ongoing relationship between creative expression and Civil Rights. The exhibition will, for the first time, bring together the sculptures, quilts and site-specific production of African American artists who grew up in direct contact with Civil Rights actions, alongside photographs and documentation of the Civil Rights era. The work of artists whose lives were entwined with the Civil Rights movement, and has a resulting direct power, is only now being internationally recognised.
Hannah Collins is documenting those works which cannot be moved and are site specific. Specific to these artists’ works is a strong awareness of materials and a consciousness of the artist’s own role as guardian of and witness to, both nature and social change. By also featuring contemporary artworks exploring the vital social and political legacy of the Civil Rights period, the exhibition reaches for an understanding of the immense impact the events and imagery continue to exert.
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21 Mar 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
Galerie Tanit, Munich
Hannah will be showing the pictures above in an upcoming group show in Munich at Galerie Tanit.
For more details please see the gallery website here
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30 Jan 2018
Award
Headlands Center For The Arts, San Francisco, 2018
Hannah is one of the Headlands Center For The Arts, Artist in Residence 2018 Awardees.
For more details please see the website here
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09 Aug 2017
Upcoming Exhibition
Galerie PCP, Paris, Opens 08 Sep 17
Hannah will be showing the picture above in 'Champignons!' , which is curated by Francesca Gavin. The show will run from 08 September through to 10 November.
For more details please see the gallery website here
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25 Mar 2017
New Book
Noah Purifoy by Hannah Collins — published by Steidl Books
Though born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1917, Noah Purifoy lived most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California, where he died in 2004. The exhibition of his work, Junk Dada, at LACMA in 2015 as well as the recent publication by Steidl of his notebooks and essays in High Desert, have contributed to the legacy of this long-overlooked artist who first came to prominence with sculpture assembled from the debris of the Watts Rebellion of 1965.
In the last fifteen years of his life Purifoy lived in the Mojave Desert where he created large-scale sculptures spread over ten acres. On visiting this site Hannah Collins made a series of exquisite black-andwhite photographic studies of Purifoy’s work. Her rigorous aesthetic stance is unwittingly reminiscent of the formality of Walker Evans, who would have greatly appreciated Purifoy’s transformation of discarded materials into grand yet vernacular forms.
Message from the Interior, Walker Evans’ photographic study of 1966, which through the selection of a handful of pictures of interiors suggests a wide and disparate landscape, became a model for the publication of Collins’ work from Purifoy’s site. Her 18 photographs are presented here in a format that exactly echoes Evans’ publication, both typographically and spatially. The intention is not imitative, but refers to the grandeur and scale achieved by Purifoy. Cumulatively his work becomes a transitory monument inevitably destined to decay into the desert itself.
You can pre-order the book here
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10 Feb 2017
Upcoming Exhibition
Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, Opens 15 Jun 17
18 black and white photographs shot using a large format camera are exhibited alongside a sound installation which examines the period from 1958 - 1970 both in California and further afield. During this period Noah Purifoy an African American sculptor who had come from Alabama to Los Angeles lived and worked as a social catalyst and artist. In a momentous time of change Purifoy developed both his social and cultural ideas which were in evidence during the final period of his life when he moved to Joshua Tree in the California Desert and created a sculptural installation there made entirely of repurposed objects. The soundtrack accompanying the images is made up of the voices of those who took part in the events of the 60s recalling and recounting some of the forces at work. Those interviewed include Ed Bereal, Ben Caldwell, Emory Douglas, Samella Lewis, John Outterbridge and Ed Ruscha. An accompanying artist book creates a link between the photographs of Walker Evans that recalled the vernacular of the South and Hannah collins’ recording of Purifoy’s reimagined spaces, the book will be produced by Steidl publishers during 2017.
For more details please see the gallery website here
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Posted on
10 Nov 2022
Paris Photo
Galeria Joan Prats, Grand Palais Ephemere, Paris, 10 - 13 Nov 2022
Two works will be on display at Paris Photo with Galeria Joan Prats at their stand.
The Platespinner, 1987
In the Course of Time - Barn South of Poland, 1995
Posted on
10 Sep 2022
Group Exhibition
The Magic Carpet. For Joan de Muga
Galeria Joan Prats, 15 Sep - 05 Oct 2022
Hannah is part of group show The Magic Carpet an homage to Joan de Muga.
You can watch a video about the exhbition and Joan de Muga here
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Performance
Portico Quartet Ensemble with Hannah Collins
Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet
Barbican Centre, London
29 Sep 2022
Hannah is collaborating with London-based instrumental group Portico Quartet on an audio-visual work which will be performed at the Barbican Centre.
"Mercury Prize nominated Portico Quartet and Turner Prize nominated artist Hannah Collins present the world premiere performance of their new audio-visual work Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet.
In this profound, collaborative audio-visual performance of Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet, Hannah Collins’ sensitive, mesmerizing images of Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile, find a gently resonant dialogue with Portico Quartet’s 2021 album Terrain, a body of work that represents one of the most complex and beautiful pieces the band have composed, shifting through different musical worlds with an insistent pulse and horizontal movement. "
Tickets for the performance can be purchased here
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Group Exhibition
Art Basel
2022
Hannah's work Family is on view at Art Basel at Maureen Paley —
ART BASEL 2022
Maureen Paley is pleased to participate in Art Basel 2022.
Stand J15
Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10
4058 Basel
Switzerland
Private days (by invitation only):
14 – 15 June 2022, 11 am – 8 pm
Vernissage (by invitation only):
15 June 2022, 5 – 8 pm
Public days:
16 – 19 June 2022, 11 am – 7 pm
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25 Jul 2022
Group Exhibition
Hole in the ground
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
26 May – 23 Jun, 2022
Hannah's work is included in Hole In The Ground, a collective exhibition that brings together works by Cabrita, Camila Cañeque, Hannah Collins, Pablo del Pozo, Mercedes Pimiento and Fernando Prats.
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Words
Doris Derby obituary, The Guardian
Hannah wrote an obituary in The Guardian for Doris Derby when she passed away earlier this year. Read it here
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Radio
Hannah on Doris Derby, Last Word, BBC Radio 4
08/04/22
Hannah was a guest on Last Word on BBC Radio 4 talking about the life of Doris Derby. Listen back to the program here
Posted on
25 Jul 2022
Reviews
Doris Derby, Mack
Read reviews of Doris Derby's A Civil Rights Journey :
‘The story behind Derby’s wonderful, intimate pictures is enmeshed with the rest of her extraordinary life … Her experience also provides a revealing snapshot of the rupture that America went through in the 1960s and 70s.‘ The Guardian
‘Many of [Derby’s] photographs from this time feel very joyful – full of positive energy and activity – or otherwise depict everyday scenes, quite removed from the Civil Rights protests and all the violence the black community was experiencing‘ Apollo
‘A firsthand account of the advancements and setbacks of the movement from an incisive photographer on the frontlines.‘ Brooklyn Rail
‘Derby’s searing and intimate photos capture a crucial moment in history, but they aren’t trapped in the past … her photos feel especially poignant when seen from today’s fraught political climate.‘ Hyperallergic
Posted on
04 Nov 2021
Review
El Tiempo del Fuego, Hundred Heroines
Hannah's show El Tiempo del Fuego is examined on the website Hundred Heroines.
You can read the piece here
Posted on
04 Nov 2021
Book
Doris Derby, The Guardian
Doris Derby's book, published by Mack Books is out now. The Guardian have run a piece celebrating Doris's photographs which you can see here
Posted on
16 Sept 2021
Installation Views
El Tiempo del Fuego
Maureen Paley, London
15 Sep – 24 Oct, 2021
Studio M, London
15 Sep – 09 Oct, 2021
Posted on
06 Sept 2021
Exhibition
El Tiempo del Fuego
Maureen Paley, London
15 Sep – 24 Oct, 2021
Studio M, London
15 Sep – 09 Oct, 2021
Maureen Paley is pleased to announce a new exhibition by Hannah Collins that will be presented across the gallery’s two London spaces.
"One evening whilst walking through the forest with the shaman he carefully cut a groove in a copal tree. He lit it to produce a small, controlled flickering flame that could sustain light but did not burn the damp tree. As we walked on he lit trees as we went to show us the way back from our night-time excursion and extinguished them as we no longer needed the light."
Posted on
06 Sept 2021
Book
Doris Derby, Mack Books
Until Oct 08, 2021
Hannah Collins is working with 1960’s veteran Civil Rights activist Doris Derby to edit and narrate a journey through the civil rights era in Mississippi, the book will be published by MACK.
Available to pre-order, the book is launching in October. Pre-order the book here
Posted on
06 Sept 2021
Film Cycle
Zumzeig Cinema, Barcelona
'The importance of Barcelona for flamenco is constituent. From the dance troupe of the first Liceu to Carmen Amaya, from Albéniz to Vicente Escudero or Antonio Gades, the Chinatown, Catalan rumba or Barcelona d'Ocaña, as much or more than the new generation of voices (Duquenque , Mayte Martín, Miguel Poveda, Rosalía, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, etc.) that continues to expand the territory.'
Hannah's work 'La Mina' and 'Current History' is included in the film cycle.
Posted on
06 Sept 2021
Exhibition
Casa Arabe, Cordoba
Until Oct 08, 2021
'Starting on May 27, Casa Árabe will be holding this exhibition in Córdoba. Curated by José Tono Martínez in Madrid, it includes layout plans, models, photographs and books by the man known as the “architect of the poor.'
Hannah's work 'I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head' is included in this exhibition.
https://www.ondacero.es/programas/gente-viajera/
https://atalayar.com/content/el-camino-de-santiago-y-el-anillo-de-giges%C2%A0%C2%A0
Posted on
22 Feb 2021
Gallery
Maureen Paley is pleased to announce the representation of Hannah Collins
'The gallery builds upon an early connection with the artist having first shown her work in an exhibition Evidence in the Streets – War Damage Volumes in 1984.
Hannah Collins’ large format black-and-white photographs brought her to prominence during the 1980s and she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1993. Her work draws attention to historical and social frameworks, addressing this through a wide range of subjects and geographical locations with images of interiors, exteriors, interactions and specific objects. Examples of her work are held in many collections including the Dallas Art Museum (USA), MACBA (Spain), Pompidou Centre (France), Reina Sofia Museum (Spain), Sprengel Museum (Germany), Tate (UK), and Walker Art, Center (USA) amongst others.
In 2015 a retrospective of her work was shown at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, in conjunction with the award of the Spectrum Prize and travelled to Camden Art Centre, London and Baltic Centre, Newcastle. Her latest work – I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head, has been shown at SF MOMA San Francisco (2019), Tapies Foundation Barcelona (2019) and at the Rotterdam Film Festival (2020). Recently Hannah Collins and Paul Goodwin co-curated We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK (2020).'
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22 Feb 2021
Reviews
We Will Walk, Frieze Magazine
Frieze Magazine has included 'We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South' in its top 10 shows in the UK and Ireland in 2020.
Read what they said here
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22 Feb 2021
Exhibition
Casa Arabe, Madrid
Until May 16, 2021
'Starting on January 28, Casa Árabe will be holding this exhibition curated by José Tono Martínez in Madrid, including layout plans, models, photographs and books by the man known as the “architect of the poor.'
Hannah's work 'I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head' is included in this exhibition.
More information here
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28 Aug 2020
Reviews
We Will Walk, Turner Contemporary
A selection of reviews of the critically acclaimed exhibition We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South.
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/
Forbes
Frieze
https://www.frieze.com/
Apollo Magazine
https://www.apollo-magazine.
ArtLyst
https://www.artlyst.com/whats-
The Art Newspaper
https://www.theartnewspaper.
Studio International
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28 Aug 2020
Article
Curating and photographing art and resistance in the American South, Burlington Contemporary
An article by Hannah, about the exhibition she curated at Turner Contemporary, We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South is online at the Burlington Contemporary website.
Head here to read the article.
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28 Aug 2020
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28 Aug 2020
Upcoming Exhibition
Think about the size of the universe, then brush your teeth and go to bed
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, 09 Jun - 09 Sep, 2020
Works by Hannah are included in group show Think about the size of the universe, then brush your teeth and go to bed at Galeria Joan Prats in Barcelona. The exhibition runs until 09 Sep 2020.
More information can be found here
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13 May 2020
Online Exhibition Video
We Will Walk — Video Overview
As Turner Contemporary is closed due to the ongoing situation, there is now a short video available to watch online, which shows some of the scope of the exhibition.
Watch the video here
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29 Mar 2020
Forthcoming Exhibition
I will make up a Song and Sing it in a Theatre with the Night Air above my Head
Casa Arabe, Madrid, September 2020
I will make up a Song and Sing it in a Theatre with the Night Air above my Head will be showing at Casa Arabe in Madrid, from September 2020.
More information to follow.
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29 Mar 2020
Review
We Will Walk, Forbes
"This powerful exhibition was the idea of British artist Hannah Collins, who travelled extensively through urban and rural Alabama to interview makers and take photographs of their work. The artists on show here lived through the Civil Rights struggle and their work is characterised by the reuse of materials."
Head here to read the review
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13 Feb 2020
Review
The Arts Newspaper
'We abstracted our experience—that is how we saved ourselves': emotional opening at Margate's show of African American art
Head here to read the review
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13 Feb 2020
Talk
The Photographers Gallery – In conversation with Doris Derby, 06 March 2020, 18:30
Join the American civil rights photographer for this special talk
Known for her work during the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, this is a unique opportunity to hear from activist and documentary photographer Dr Doris Derby. Derby is widely recognised for her explorations of Black history and culture, producing thousands of photographs documenting the struggles and hopes of African Americans from the 1960s through to the 1970s.
This public talk coincides with the 81-year-old’s inclusion in We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South at Turner Contemporary in Margate, which features a selection of these photographs. Curated by artist Hannah Collins and theorist and researcher Paul Goodwin, the exhibition is open 7 February to 3 May 2020.
Book tickets here
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13 Feb 2020
Feature
The Guardian - Lanre Bakare, 05 Feb 2020
"From lynching and slavery to the civil rights movement, Alabama’s artists expressed the momentous events they lived through – as a landmark new exhibition reveals."
Read the full article here
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13 Feb 2020
Feature
The Guardian –Doris Derby, In Pictures
'Through the lens of civil rights photographer Doris Derby – in pictures
The activist, photographer and former academic Doris Derby lived and worked in the southern US at the height of the civil rights era. Her images capture not the protests of the 60s but the everyday realities of black lives at that time. Here she talks us through some of her photographs.'
Read the full article here
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31 Jan 2020
Exhibition
Mushrooms: The art, design and future of fungi, London, 30 Jan - 26 Apr 2020
"Bringing together the work of over 40 leading artists, designers and musicians, Mushrooms looks at fungi’s colourful cultural legacy, as well as the promise it offers to reimagine our relationship with the planet."
Contributing artists include Takashi Murakami, Haroon Mirza, Hannah Collins, Adham Faramawy, Annie Ratti, Simon Popper, Jae Rhim Lee, Graham Little, Seana Gavin, Perks and Mini, and Mae-ling Lokko.
Head here for more information.
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16 Jan 2020
Festival
I will make up a song... 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, 24 Jan 2020 & 31 Jan 2020
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with night air above my head will be shown at the 49th International Film Festival in Rotterdam in early 2020 as part of the Wait and See program. It will be shown on 24 Jan as well as 31 Jan. For tickets and more information head here
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16 Jan 2020
Review
'Revisiting an Architectural Landmark, Hannah Collins asks whom does it serve' – KQED Arts
KQED arts have reviewed I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with night air above my head at SFMOMA. Read the review here
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26 Nov 2019
Festival
I will make up a song... 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam, 22 Jan - 2 Feb 2020
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with night air above my head will be shown at the 49th International Film Festival in Rotterdam in early 2020 as part of the Wait and See program. Wait and See is part of the official “Perspectives” section of IFFR, and is curated by IFFR programmer Edwin Carels. For more information head here
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26 Nov 2019
Review
Art Agenda: 'I Will Make Up a Song' at SFMOMA by Monica Westin
Read Monica Westin's review of 'I Will Make Up a Song' at SFMOMA on Art Agenda here
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02 Sept 2019
Newspaper Article
La Vanguardia
Hannah Collins current exhibition in Barcelona is featured in spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.
To read the full article head here
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18 July 2019
Exhibition
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head
SFMOMA, San Francisco, 31 August 2019- 05 January 2020
Hannah Collins presents a new work made in collaboration with Duncan Bellamy.
"This presentation brings together still photography and an immersive video installation exploring the work of Egyptian Modernist architect Hassan Fathy. Searching for models that might address the urgent contemporary problems of housing, poverty, and environmental sustainability, Collins (English, b. 1956) reconsiders Fathy’s mid-twentieth-century utopian experiments in sustainable architecture and rural community building at New Gourna and New Baris in Egypt. Her installation underscores the visual and philosophical connections between the ancient Egyptian structures and Fathy’s historically grounded, forward-looking designs, and prompts us to meditate on the past as well as contemplate new solutions for the future."
For information about the exhibition please visit:
https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/hannah-collins-i-will-make-up-a-song/
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16 July 2019
Prize
The Rose Award for Photography
Hannah Collins has been awarded The Rose Award for Photogrpahy prize for her work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Nelson Mandela’s Teenage Home, National Monument. The award is "for a photograph or series of photographs".
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23 May 2019
Exhibition
Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London, 10 June - 12 August 2019
Hannah Collins is showing two large scale works in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. The exhibition runs from 10 June - 12 August.
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17 Jan 2019
Exhibition / New Work
Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, Spain — June 2019
SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA — August 2019
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head.
A new audio visual work about the work of Egyptian modernist architect Hassan Fathy at New Gourna and New Baris in Egypt.
Fathy pioneered sustainable mud architecture and new ways of looking at community for rural people from the 1950s onwards in Egypt and beyond.
Work developed with musician Duncan Bellamy.
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17 Jan 2019
Exhibition
Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona
An exhibition of new work. Show runs from 14th March onwards.
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08 Oct 2018
Public Work
Ford Foundation, New York
A large scale newly made print of one of a series of four works that describe Nelson Mandela’s birthplace in Mvezo in South Africa is being installed at the newly renovated Ford Foundation. The iconic building designed by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo completed in 1968 will become the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice at 430 East 43rd Street. The newly renovated building will re-open to the public in November 2018.
The new print is 548cm wide and will sit outside the Mandela meeting room.
"I undertook a journey to understand my own act of looking, travelling to South Africa I visited and photographed a monument built to celebrate the birthplace of Nelson Mandela in Mvezo in the Transvaal. The site itself is remote, over four hours on dirt roads cross country. Later I was taken to see the family who supported Mandela through his teenage years and photographed the hut he made his home at this time. This is now a national monument though there is little to suggest its status or to celebrate its occupant except a few random books. These four pictures are part of Parallel."
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08 Oct 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
San Sebastian
Hannah Collins will participate in the exhibition — Bestea Naiz / El otro soy yo / The other is me
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08 Oct 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
Foto Museum, Winterthur
25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, will be running from 20 October 2018 to 10 February 2019.
The exhibition will feature works from the Winterthur museum collection, selected by 25 individuals as well as Fotomuseum’s new director, Nadine Wietlisbach.
More information on the exhibition can be found here
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08 Oct 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
Swiss Cottage Library, London
Hannah Collins is one of four artists who have produced posters for Swiss Cottage Library a classic building designed by Sir Basil Spence.
The posters all focus on Equality Place Power and Identity. Hannah Collins spent time with children living on the Alexander and Ainsworth Estate designed by Neave Brown and opened in 1978 the year she finished college and where her studio is situated
She asked them to show her how they felt about the architecture that surrounds them.
The posters will go on show on the 14th October.
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19 Sep 2018
Upcoming Talk
Hay Festival, Segovia
'The impact of the arts, culture and the humanities on coexistence and cosmopolitanism'
Along with AC Grayling and William Kingswood, Hannah will be in conversation with Santiago Íñiguez as part of the Hay Festival in Segovia on Friday 21st September.
More information and tickets can be found here
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09 Jul 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
Turner Contemporary, Margate
Hannah Collins is working with Turner Contemporary in Margate to curate We Will Walk - Art of Protest and Resistance in the American South to open in Margate in January 2020 then touring.
The exhibition project aims to illuminate the ongoing relationship between creative expression and Civil Rights. The exhibition will, for the first time, bring together the sculptures, quilts and site-specific production of African American artists who grew up in direct contact with Civil Rights actions, alongside photographs and documentation of the Civil Rights era. The work of artists whose lives were entwined with the Civil Rights movement, and has a resulting direct power, is only now being internationally recognised.
Hannah Collins is documenting those works which cannot be moved and are site specific. Specific to these artists’ works is a strong awareness of materials and a consciousness of the artist’s own role as guardian of and witness to, both nature and social change. By also featuring contemporary artworks exploring the vital social and political legacy of the Civil Rights period, the exhibition reaches for an understanding of the immense impact the events and imagery continue to exert.
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21 Mar 2018
Upcoming Exhibition
Galerie Tanit, Munich
Hannah will be showing the pictures above in an upcoming group show in Munich at Galerie Tanit.
For more details please see the gallery website here
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30 Jan 2018
Award
Headlands Center For The Arts, San Francisco, 2018
Hannah is one of the Headlands Center For The Arts, Artist in Residence 2018 Awardees.
For more details please see the website here
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09 Aug 2017
Upcoming Exhibition
Galerie PCP, Paris, Opens 08 Sep 17
Hannah will be showing the picture above in 'Champignons!' , which is curated by Francesca Gavin. The show will run from 08 September through to 10 November.
For more details please see the gallery website here
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25 Mar 2017
New Book
Noah Purifoy by Hannah Collins — published by Steidl Books
Though born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1917, Noah Purifoy lived most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California, where he died in 2004. The exhibition of his work, Junk Dada, at LACMA in 2015 as well as the recent publication by Steidl of his notebooks and essays in High Desert, have contributed to the legacy of this long-overlooked artist who first came to prominence with sculpture assembled from the debris of the Watts Rebellion of 1965.
In the last fifteen years of his life Purifoy lived in the Mojave Desert where he created large-scale sculptures spread over ten acres. On visiting this site Hannah Collins made a series of exquisite black-andwhite photographic studies of Purifoy’s work. Her rigorous aesthetic stance is unwittingly reminiscent of the formality of Walker Evans, who would have greatly appreciated Purifoy’s transformation of discarded materials into grand yet vernacular forms.
Message from the Interior, Walker Evans’ photographic study of 1966, which through the selection of a handful of pictures of interiors suggests a wide and disparate landscape, became a model for the publication of Collins’ work from Purifoy’s site. Her 18 photographs are presented here in a format that exactly echoes Evans’ publication, both typographically and spatially. The intention is not imitative, but refers to the grandeur and scale achieved by Purifoy. Cumulatively his work becomes a transitory monument inevitably destined to decay into the desert itself.
You can pre-order the book here
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10 Feb 2017
Upcoming Exhibition
Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, Opens 15 Jun 17
18 black and white photographs shot using a large format camera are exhibited alongside a sound installation which examines the period from 1958 - 1970 both in California and further afield. During this period Noah Purifoy an African American sculptor who had come from Alabama to Los Angeles lived and worked as a social catalyst and artist. In a momentous time of change Purifoy developed both his social and cultural ideas which were in evidence during the final period of his life when he moved to Joshua Tree in the California Desert and created a sculptural installation there made entirely of repurposed objects. The soundtrack accompanying the images is made up of the voices of those who took part in the events of the 60s recalling and recounting some of the forces at work. Those interviewed include Ed Bereal, Ben Caldwell, Emory Douglas, Samella Lewis, John Outterbridge and Ed Ruscha. An accompanying artist book creates a link between the photographs of Walker Evans that recalled the vernacular of the South and Hannah collins’ recording of Purifoy’s reimagined spaces, the book will be produced by Steidl publishers during 2017.
For more details please see the gallery website here