DEGREE SHOW 2022
BA PHOTOGRAPHY, LONDON MET
22 JUNE - 02 JULY
MON-FRI 10AM-7PM, SAT-SUN 11AM-6PM
Giulia Ballarin, Amy Bloomfield, Bella Bosi, Vaiva Botyriūtė, Ciara Emily Davies, Alba de la Cruz Soto, Victor Dobritan, Angela Moreno, Marwa Fathi Mohamed, Kinga Gurba, Tristan Jones, Raven Klement, Bea Lauckner, Christopher Powe, Douglas Reeves, Nigel Rodrigues, Elise Simmonds, Denitsa Stoyanova, Kristian Stoynev
The Class of BA Photography 2022, comprising an array of 19 international artists, share their work within their Degree Show 2022, exhibition. Showcasing the broad landscapes of both analogue and digital practice, the exhibited works are aided by a variety of lens-based media, that simultaneously intersect with extended, visual arts communication. These emerging photographers employ curiosity and innovation with the intention of unveilling an individual viewpoint, whilst engaging the spectator and transforming the wider world.
For the first time in over 2 years, our graduates will be representing the anticipated return to a physical exhibition space within the Annexe Building at London Metropolitan University, Aldgate Campus. The onset of COVID19 saw exhibitions being halted worldwide with an indefinite future. Universities turned to the vast and dynamic potential of the internet to virtually unite the art deprived masses. These monumental changes shifted mediated preconceptions for creatives and audiences alike. These customarily centred around the industry standard for exhibition spaces and focus on the materiality of artworks and the spectacle of a physical and social encounter. In some measure, online exhibitions offered an opportune environment for us to respond to the situation industriously and diminish the inaccessibility of the institution. Drawing on the positives of both a physical and online experience, this year we have facilitated the curation of both an online and in-person, hybrid event.
Running parallel to the Degree Show 2022, a selection of these photography graduates will also participate in the ‘Free Range’ exhibition, hosted in East London’s Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, 29th June - 3rd July, curated by a renowned expert in photography, Zelda Cheatle. This collaboration will celebrate their talent within the broader photographic field, marking our graduates’ entry into art and design industries and contemporary art spheres.
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Of Memory and Belonging, 2022
“Of Memory and Belonging” explores the idea of being a migrant torn between two places, either real or created by the mind, and the way I perceive my home, my altered memories of it, deceived by nostalgia.
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Nightmares End, 2022
In “Nightmares End” I use the mixed mediums of pinhole photography and colour film to reconstruct how it feels to be trapped in a nightmare while remaining hopeful that there is an end in sight.
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Preserved Time, 2022
In my latest work I am investigating the connection with the first place I called home, its geopolitics, and my grandmother Milda, who now lives there alone, keeping all the memories of generations of my family alive.
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Patternicity, Poetry & Paraphernalia, 2022
‘Patternicity, Poetry & Paraphernalia’ is an acceptance of a tendency that is “nothing but the anxiety driven, by-product of high task uncertainty” (John H Evans, 2006).
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Perception, 2022
”Perception” combines two projects; ‘Inside Out’ and ‘Being Female’ to convey how we view women and women with chronic illnesses through brightly colour, performative photographs.
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El Mantón de la Abuela, 2022
An heirloom, history, women. Great-grandparents were Andalusian so this was deeply rooted in their culture. This shawl has been through the displacement that unites all of the women through these portraits.
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Overlooked, 2022
"Overlooked" points to gender inequality and social injustice issues, constructing its narrative through abstract and cinematic aesthetic.
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Lost, 2022
I use my work as a means of advocacy and to showcase the potential of art practices for self-therapy for people suffering from mental health issues, including myself.
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Let’s Create, 2022
I create work that is focused on youth, diversity, identity, and freedom, with a desire to encourage everyone to engage in self love and body positivity, and to promote and demonstrate my solidarity with the Black, LGBTQI+, and Queer communities.
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Faitours Forge, 2022
“Faitours Forge” is a portrayal of the relationship between identity and masquerade, the interplay between always-on connectivity and needy, intrusive technologies; a virtual space, represented by the mask, where the meta-self is forged.
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Flou, 2022
This work layers moving image and portraits of candid moments with structuring thoughts to convey a phenomenology of subjective experience that perhaps others can relate to.
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Key Queer Communication, 2022
”Key Queer Communication” is an exploration of the visual language codes, and semiotics that queer peoples use in order to achieve libartion from the prejudices of our heteronormative society.
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You Will Be As Us, 2022
In ”You Will Be As Us”, I explore the changing nature of both my individual distinctiveness and family identity through ancestry, linking memories of yesterday, perceptions of today and an imagined tomorrow.
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Untitled, 2022
The importance of this project is not only to be able to create another world, but to dive into it. This series consists of a group of digitally manipulated images that take us beyond the realm of reality we are used to.
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Anthropic Entropy 1.5, 2022
Looking at paradigms around societal and human cultural elements, existence, and impact on natural environments… our milieu, I hope to understand the vastness and scope of our world.
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Windows on the Wall
“Windows on the Wall” looks at metaphorical symbolism of widows and their connection within ourselves.
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Nebula, 2022
“Nebula” is a visual exploration of the daunting, relatable nature of the constant passing of time; the growth of thoughts about achieving one's dreams, nurturing your legacy, shifting tides, and facing mortality.
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Shifting Spaces, 2022
“Shifting Spaces” is a visual depiction of dreams and sensations, evoked by recalling the memories of childhood, family, the home, and its belongings.
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Days Go By. Forever, 2021-ongoing
Our day-to-day life numbs us down and we forget to remember; then get lost in time. I use objects as mementos of time, place and space. Buildings rise, graves expand, flowers bloom. How often do you experience time, or do you know how to?