Quicken
an exhibition of photographic work curated by Caroline McQuarrie and Jane Wilcox

Poppy Lekner, Briarna Martelletti, Johanna Mechen, Mizuho Nishioka, Maria Sainsbury, Deidra Sullivan and Virginia Woods-Jack

The Engine Room 
Block 1, Massey University.
Access via Gate C, Wallace Street, Wellington

22 July - 14 August 2020

Opening 5.30 - 7.30pm Tuesday 21 July

Gallery hours: 12.00 - 4.00pm Monday - Friday

Quicken is an exhibition of photographic work engaging touch and tactility curated by Caroline McQuarrie and Jane Wilcox, including Poppy Lekner, Briarna Martelletti, Johanna Mechen, Mizuho Nishioka, Maria Sainsbury, Deidra Sullivan and Virginia Woods-Jack. Photography can sometimes seem like a barrier to intimacy and closeness, too often we put a camera between ourselves and the world and it becomes an obstacle, an obstruction. Yet a photograph is only made because light touches something which is sensitive to it; we may not see the magic happening, but every time a photograph is made this touch happens. ‘Quicken’ includes work which utilises photography’s direct relationship to light, incorporating photograms, chemigrams and photographic ‘mistakes’, but touch is also a concept that ranges through the physical to the emotional, and other work in the exhibition engages relationships with family, friends, home and the artist’s own unwell body.