Entry: £5 / £4 concessions
This is a glorious exhibition that I hadn't really seen advertised anywhere, (the V&A have primarily been promoting the Ballet Russes exhibition over the last few months). Fortunately, a better-informed friend took me along.
It's a very straightforward show. It showcases the work of five contemporary artists - Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Garry Fabian Miller, Susan Derges and Adam Fuss - who make images using photographic paper and chemicals, but not cameras. In addition to the work itself, there's a film showing brief interviews with each of the artists. In these interviews they explain how and why they use the techniques that they do.
With that little bit of background out of the way all I can do is whole-heartedly recommend this show, which runs until 20th February. The work on display is all gorgeous and evocative. While they've all been joined under the banner of “camera-less photographers”, the artists all have different styles and even use different techniques: Pierre Codier's chemigrams, made by painting directly on to the photographic paper with fixer, developer and varnishes, are a world away from Susan Derges' photograms of river currents. But both are beautiful and intricate, a lovely mixture of skill and chance, and completely worth seeing.
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