Kara Magid reviews 'Point of Interest: Peter Marlow' at Wapping Project\Bankside, London
31/05/2011
Images: Peter Marlow
Point of Interest: Peter Marlow | Wapping Project Bankside, London
Review by Kara Magid for Aesthetica Magazine Blog
Peter Marlow's Point of Interest photography exhibition is on view at The Wapping Project Bankside Gallery from 24 May - 2 July. The Wapping Project Bankside is a gallery focusing on lens-based media founded by the Director of the Wapping Project, Jules Wright. Marlow joined the gallery in 2009 and the site provides Marlow's photographs with a generous amount of space in which they can truly flourish.
The first photograph we encounter when entering the exhibit is of a shopping cart left astray in a public space. This large-format image allows for the viewer to ingest each detail and also to get a feel for the wide expansive space in which the shopping cart has been positioned. Because this photograph is not in black and white, it resembles a scene we might pass by while taking a random walk outdoors. Most of Marlow's colour photographs first seem like visual documents of mundane life but as one makes their way through the exhibit, it becomes clear that this is not Marlow’s intention. What he is attempting to do is to capture instances of abandonment in which various objects are the victims. No longer is the solitary shopping cart a commonplace object but a trace left behind by reckless human behaviour.
This idea of abandonment is pushed further by the flooding surrounding the cart and under which it... [read the full article on the Aesthetica Magazine Blog].
Images: Peter Marlow: The Experimental Station, Dungeness / England 2006 & Road near Koya, Wakayama Prefecture / Japan 1998.
Point of Interest continues until 2 July at www.thewappingprojectbankside.com.
Kara Magid is a candidate for the MA in Art History at Richmond the American International University in London.
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