reGeneration3 | Richard Forster | Franciszka & Stefan Themerson | Truth And Memory | Maud Sulter | Eva Grubinger | Shelagh WakelyAs the off-year episode of its biennale FORMAT international photography festival,Derby’s QUAD presents reGeneration3, curated by Lausanne’s Musée de l’Elysée. Featuring work by some 50 students of 25 different nationalities and 40 art institutions, or the exhibition aims to give a cross-sectional insight into photographic trends. These include a shift absent from documentary prints to include digital collage,lens-based multi-media, independent book publishing and a spend of combined image and text that reflects online news and social media. There is also a co-related tendency towards cultural bewilderment and social alienation. Ola Lanko’s Romantic Act Of Reason shows a living room claustrophobically packed with a pile-up of disparate snaps, or whilst in her Testament series,Jennifer B Thoreson depicts family relationships entangled in giant amoebic blobs and ectoplasmic emissions.
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Source: theguardian.com