Wenyon & Gamble “Out of Place”

Wenyon & Gamble “Out of Place”

Magnan Metz Gallery

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Magnan Metz Gallery presents its third exhibition by Wenyon & Gamble “Out of Place”.

Out of Place questions the ‘newness’ often assumed in presentations of technology. The artists employ different media —holograms and daguerreotypes—to reflect on the past and the sentimental lure of objects as they fade into history. With images of index boxes, coal and silver, the exhibit looks at subjects old and obsolete.

Silver Before Photography is a hologram of English silverware manufactured before the invention of photography. The silverware looks modern and ageless. It is illuminated by diffused lighting reflecting from two recent Apple™ devices that are not themselves visible. In the jug, a small Apple™ logo is visible in reflection. The hologram presents the illusion of antique spoons and ladles, resting on a table, ready for use. The hologram itself was possibly the last analogue photographic process to use silver salts. Here the 20th-century medium provides a window onto silver objects from an age before photography.

Susan Gamble (b. London, 1957) and Michael Wenyon (b.Dayton, Ohio 1955) live in London and New York. The two have collaborated since 1983 with holography and photography, and share differing backgrounds in art and science. Susan Gamble has a BA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths’ College, London, an MPhil & PhD, in the History of Science, Cambridge University, UK; Michael Wenyon has BSc in Physics, Bristol University, UK and an MSc in Optics, Imperial College, London.

Their works are in collections such as The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the M.I.T. Collection, Boston; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC and the National Academies of Science, Washington DC and have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Tate Liverpool, UK.

Media

• Photography
• Prints

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