5th – 22nd September 2024
Art Space Portsmouth, Jack House Gallery & Aspex Gallery Studio
Opening times: Wed–Sun 11am–4pm*
* Art Space Portsmouth Opening times: Wed-Sat 11am-4pm, closed on Thurs 19 Sept
Patti Gaal-Holmes raises questions about identity, exile and memory in a project informed by her father’s escape from Hungary and her attempts to excavate elements of the past through analogue photography, film and photobooks. The exhibition is three-fold: ‘into the frameless distance’ (Jack House Gallery) focuses on the border crossings by river (swimming across the Danube) and land (Bratislava/Austria border). ‘city of (no) memory’ (Art Space Portsmouth) centres on the artist’s return to her father’s city (Budapest) in search of the ‘ghosts’ of the past. Related films are shown in ‘looking backwards, moving forwards’ with the PAX collective (Aspex Residency Studio).
5th September – PRIVATE VIEW & walk between galleries
16.00 – 17.30: Art Space Portsmouth PO5 4PA
18.00 – 20.00: Jack House Gallery PO1 2HW
DATES FOR THE DIARY
The following events are not at Art Space Portsmouth. Please note time and venue details.
8th September – MEET THE PAX ARTISTS in ‘looking backwards, moving forwards’
Expanded Cinema & Analogue Experiments
14.00 – 16.00: PAX Aspex Residency Studio
11th September – ARTIST TALK & IN-CONVERSATION
17.00 – 19.00: Jack House Gallery
13th September – MEET THE PAX ARTISTS in ‘looking backwards, moving forwards’
Expanded Cinema & Analogue Experiments
18.00 – 21.00: PAX at Aspex Friday Late
15th September – ASPEX ROUND TABLE – ‘looking backwards, moving forwards’
14.00 – 16.00: Aspex Gallery
Join us for an open discussion on the enduring appeal of analogue media & technologies, including the use of archival materials (slides, photographs, films, etc.) and analogue filmmaking in the making of new work. In this way ‘Innovation becomes multidirectional and (re)invention often involves looking backwards in order to move forwards’ (Knowles, 2020, p.6).
19th September – JAPAN PHOTOBOOK EVENING with POMPEY DARKROOM – Aspex Gallery
16.00 – 18.00: Join us to look through a range of photobooks from the JAPAN PHOTOBOOK COLLECTION, held at Arts University Bournemouth (AUB). Specialist subject librarian, Alan Turner, will provide an introduction to the collections held at AUB, including details on how members of the public can access these.
19.00 – 20.30: An illustrated talk by Dr Jelena Stojkovic – ‘From Photobook to Installation: Japanese Photography in the 1960s and ’70s’. Jelena Stojković is an art historian and critic and the author of The Impossible Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan (2020). She is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University.
PAX (Portsmouth Analogue eXperiments) includes work by Patti Gaal-Holmes, Evagelia Hagikalfa, Frankie Knight, Jane Shepherd and Vicky Smith.
