Steffi Klenz: Nummianus
Date:
30 Jan 2010 - 27 Mar 2010
Opening Times:
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12 - 5pm
Venue:
Street Level Photoworks, ground floor
Admission:
Free
Booking Required:
No
Please note this exhibition is closed on Mondays
The photographic series, Nummianus, critically explores ideas of displacement and the collapse of a sense of rootedness regarding the notion of place. The sequential photographs show boarded up, terraced houses in Greater Manchester area. Some residents, unable to sell their homes, are forced to remain in the area where they have become subject to a downward spiral of social exclusion. Critically intended, the images comment on the former wealth, diversity and livelehood through the deliberate reference to the city of Pompeii. The title of the show is a direct reference to an inscription found in the remains of a house in that city, and literally translated means coins or money. Through this Klenz makes an ironic reference to homes as commoditites and creates a memorial to the loss of communities
Artist Talk: Saturday 30 January, 3pm
