I've been preparing the Windows on the world photographs that I will be exhibiting in the Our Community Art Exhibition at St Paul's Goodmayes next week. The photographs were all taken in and around Gants Hill as part of the monthly painting and photography session that I have with Benjamin Wallis, Vicar of St George's Barkingside, to document the current regeneration of Gants Hill.
I will be exhibiting these photographs in old church noticeboards which are suggestive of the former things which are being removed in order that regeneration can come but are also an indication that redundant objects can be recycled to acquire a different existence. The photographs are pinned like notices within the boards but, instead of providing factual, written information, offer the ambiguity of visual images seen through a variety of frames.
Each photograph in the Windows on the world series features a foreground object providing a frame for what can be viewed beyond. By framing what is beyond, the photograph acts as a window on a part of our world and at the same time signals the presence of the beyond, thereby also acting as a window onto the divine in a way the way similar to that achieved by icons. Exhibiting the photographs in noticeboards adds an additional window through which they are to be viewed.
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Victoria Williams - This Moment.
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