Frank McElhinney: Adrift
Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte: Amber Room
28 October – 22 December 2016
LAME Gallery, La Photographie Marseille
As part of Marseille’s Festival of Contemporary Photography, Street Level presents an exhibition of work by these two Glasgow based artists. Adrift is McElhinney’s response to today’s migration crisis. By flying a kite over abandoned settlements throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, he takes aerial photographs of places once inhabited by thousands of subsistence farmers. The photographs remind us that nobody need look too far back in time before discovering ancestors who were migrants.
Migration also underpins the series Amber Room, made in between two countries - Lithuania and Scotland. Starting out as a visual exercise in longing and loss, it has evolved to concentrate on reflective nostalgia. Personal memories, versions of history, political identity and the poetic are the equally important layers of Amber Room. A deep and emotional search for home is infused with a tension around European political identity and what that means having dual identities.
Both of these projects are ongoing, and both artists present different versions of their projects in the exhibition Tabula Rasa II.
More info about the festival: La Photographie Marseille
LAME Gallery
2 quai de la Joliette
13002 Marseille
Banner Image: © Frank McElhinney
Left Image: © Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte