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Nancy Victor is pleased to present The Wisdom of Escape, a group exhibition by Emily Allchurch, Suzanne Moxhay and Barbara Nati. Encouraging a fresh look at digital and analogue collage techniques, these three artists create complex compositions- hybrids inspired by architecture, society and the cinematic image. These haunting environments are recognisable but also often unsettling and uncanny, each artist allowing the transformation of ideas into an intriguing, fluid environment, a tightrope walk that strangely comments on our world today.
Suzanne Moxhay creates three dimensional collages using imagery from the 1950’s and 70’s to produce a space with an uncertain existence between photography and the staged, allowing the imagery to constantly move through real and illusory space. Both Barbara Nati and Emily Allchurch use digital collage techniques to explore architecture, culture and civilisation but present their understanding in different ways. Allchurch forms multiple photographs taken from Rome, Paris, London and St.Petersburg to create Urban Chiaroscuro, a series of complex environments inspired by a series of etchings published in 1743-45 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Nati focuses on depicting a post catastrophic realm of unfamiliar landscapes. The Pangea ship anchors a confined habitat of sky scrapers within the harbour of a modern metropolis; a striking cloudy monochrome backdrop empowers the ships presence highlighting the illusionary impact upon this city.
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