5 Online Photography Shows
Art has the power to transport us around the world. With many of us spending more time indoors, the idea of visiting a gallery can feel out of reach. This selection of digital shows provides respite and inspiration: embracing home, reflecting inwards and transporting viewers to far flung destinations. Here is a list of online galleries; log on and discover.
A global assembly of artists, gallerists and academics â including Ai Weiwei, Yoko Ono and Aesthetica Art Prize photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten â respond to this yearâs theme: escape routes. Viewers are invited to explore a range of contemporary photography and fine art, reflecting on connection, human emotion and collective memories. Above is work by Fullerton-Batten, who is recognised for a cinematic eye. Until 21 February.
Mixed Messages
Filmmaker Rhea Storr, who won the 2020 Aesthetica Art Prize, uses the concept of carnival to evoke the contrasts and conflicts bound up within one version of modern British-Caribbean identity.
âIt is really quite impossible to be affirmative about anything which one refuses to question.â This quote, from James Baldwinâs
Notes of a Native Son, serves as a kind of epigram to Rhea Storrâs 2017 film
Junkanoo Talk. Suitably enough, it epitomises the mixture of affection and scrutiny with which Storrâs work explores black and mixed-race British-Caribbean identity, in particular through the tradition of Junkanoo, a type of costumed street carnival with Bahamian roots.