Upcoming Event: [Recommends] Roxana Allison Becoming a Memory
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Saturday 14 August 2010 - Sunday 26 September 2010
Untitled Gallery, Manchester
Untitled Gallery presents Becoming a Memory, a new exhibition of works by Manchester-based photographer Roxana Allison. Open since May 2010, Untitled Gallery is an exhibition space in the basement of the Friends’ Meeting House, a Grade II listed building dating from 1828. Untitled Gallery opened with Untendable, a solo show of new works by New-Zealand born artist Paul Donald.
Becoming a Memory explores the impermanence of memory when confronted with places which are at once both familiar and strange, where traces of self are discovered in the contours of the cityscape, a space imbued with memories, desires, and illusions.
As she wanders the city, the artist is open to a world of chance encounters triggered by the spaces and places of the city, a web of decaying memories and unconscious desires. In Becoming a Memory the ephemera of the city evoke a longing to return to childhood surroundings, a past revisited through the act of traversing the streets of Manchester:
Becoming a Memory is an ongoing body of work that explores my surroundings as I resettle in the city I was born in and migrated from over 20 years ago. Upon my return just over a year ago and still feeling like an outsider, I have become aware of many changes, such as places that once were but are no longer. This project responds to the constant need to remind myself about my roots and the place I once belonged to. These images will become my memory in a more tangible form as time moves on and will always be within reach, whenever I feel like going back in time…
The themes of absence and presence are explored by the artist through the act of photographing areas of Manchester that enable her to retain and re-enact distant memories, resulting in a city becoming a memory.
Manchester-born Roxana Allison studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she received her (BA) Fine Art in 2004. Roxana resided in Mexico City until 2008, when she returned to Manchester. Recent group exhibitions include Lost in Transit (2009) at Impressions Gallery, Bradford and Vyner Street Gallery, London, and an exhibition in Somers Town Festival of Cultures (2010), as a member of Centrepoint Collective, a group of artists from Mexico, Spain, France, and the UK. She has also exhibited in photography group shows in Mexico and the USA.
Untitled Gallery is a commercial gallery specialising in contemporary art, located in the basement of the Friends’ Meeting House on Mount Street, Manchester. As a new addition to the local arts and culture scene, Untitled Gallery is an intimate exhibition space in the Civic Quarter close to Manchester Art Gallery, CUBE, Castlefield Gallery, and Cornerhouse, and provides a platform for both emerging and established artists at the cutting-edge of contemporary artistic practice.
Event Contact Information
Opening Times: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12 – 6pm; Thursday 12 – 8pm
Untitled Gallery, Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street (Bootle Street Entrance), Manchester M2
5NS
www.untitledgallerymanchester.com
info@untitledgallerymanchester.com
0161 833 3087
http://roxanaallison.blogspot.com/
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