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This
exhibition brings together two bodies of work by photographer
Marc Wilson. Both deal with issues of self, family and history,
based around particular sets of events. The works also concern
personal loss and attempts to come to terms with the past. Marc
Wilson's work is drawn from real and imagined experiences. He
makes use of subtle narrative, using familiar settings and everyday
objects as symbols to a deeper meaning.
For
HARROW DACHAU Marc Wilson constructs an ordinary domestic environment.
The title of the work presents a clue as to the memories which
have been hidden away beneath the surface of this apparently
secure family setting. The work deals with the inability of a
family to face and discuss the traumas of what has been.
The
second body of work entitled SITES is a sequence of images based
around the idea of the gradual loss of innocence as a child encounters
the world around him. The images form a narrative leading the
viewer through the a series of events which cause the loss of
a set of beliefs; invincibility through family death; trust in
others through childhood betrayal; and finally the loss of belief
in human good through confrontation with large scale historical
evil.
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