BEN SEELEY – YELLOW FLY
2013-07-08Ben Seeley’s practice is rooted in an exploration and celebration of photography’s limitations. He is interested in the indexical nature of the medium and its inherent bond with reality. Seeley’s photographic series’ are carefully edited, sequenced and titled in order to complicate, contradict or undercut first impressions, quietly revealing an idea of the environment or context in which they were made.
The notion of “place” seems more fraught than is commonly supposed; this is not just the static relation of place and habitation, but rather the dynamic interplay of varied forces. With his series Yellow Fly, Ben Seeley is attempting to describe the unconscious dimensions of architectural space as a social process, one perhaps outwardly defined by use, but not made wholly comprehensible by it either. The result is an intriguing group of urban landscapes, which combines a reserved, even austere formality with a distinct undercurrent of psychological estrangement.
Exhibition runs through till July 19th, 2013
Public House Projects
62 Gowlett Road
Peckham
London
SE15 4HY