Future Now – QUAD
Featured Artists: Deacon Lui, Kota Ishida, Melanie King and Sergey Novikov
Curated by: Jodi Kwok (QUAD/FORMAT Assistant Curator)
Photography often facilitates a journey through time. At a more fundamental level, photography allows us to capture people, places and objects that might have been lost to history, giving us an unprecedented ability to reconstruct images of the past and projectour memories far into the future. Photography is taking a more active role throughout history. Future Now looks to connect with the future through the imagination of photography.
Future Now showcases the work of four UK–based artists: Deacon Lui, Kota Ishida, Melanie King, and Sergey Novikov. Each artist’s work responds to the theme of ‘Future Now’ by exploring the ways thatthe medium of photography can be used and interpreted, demonstrating this through varied approaches that includeinstallation, 3D sculpture, archive, and alternative analogue processes. The artists on display here explore the development of photography materials and creative possibilities, documenting a range of subject matter to explore concerns about the future. Theyeach rediscover the ‘archive’ by adding new elements into how an image is constructed to question the accepted narrative view of history.
The Future Now open call is produced in partnership with LCB Depot, Leicester. The photographers featured in the exhibitions at QUAD, LCB and across Leicester have been selected by Khatun, Chris Slowe, Niamh Treacy and Jodi Kwok, with special thanks to LCB team.
This exhibition was made possible by generous funding from the Art Council England and Derby City Council.
