Hotsheet 2023
Hot Sheet is an annual exhibition showcasing exceptional, yet lesser-known artists. This group show features work centered around the deconstruction, transformation, and reconfiguration of the photographic medium. Each year, since the show's inception, the selected artists have pushed the boundaries of what would traditionally be recognised as photography. In this third edition, curators Jasper Jones and Lauren Wells invite you to explore the work of eight artists: Isabel Bonafe, Eleonora Agostini, Akane Kawahara, Selina Naouma, Victor Nyberg, Niamh Jones, Gökhan Tanrıöver and Xiangyin Tom Gu.
This years’ artists tackle themes around ‘change’, through their practice of examination and visualisation. Drawing from archives, political contexts, sciences and personal histories the artists play with the medium through a multitude of forms: including sculpture, installation, video, collage and traditional photographic processes. Within this, the viewer is confronted with the multifaceted nature of change – a notion that is constantly shaping our world, yet remains elusive; its effects often felt, but difficult to grasp. Change is a force that permeates every aspect of life.
Through this show these eight artists challenge perception, trigger memory and explore our experience and complex relationship with change.
Note from the Curators
Choosing 'change' as the theme of the show inspired us to find projects and works that complement each other whilst embodying the metamorphic qualities of photography and change alike. The artists redefine practice, perception, narrative, movement, and the ever-present interaction between the viewer and the work itself.
Artists
Show
Team
Jasper Jones - Curator/Manager
Jasper Jones is a creative working in the files of photography, curation, art direction and film. Based in London started his practice studying photographic art at the University of Westminster. Graduating with a first in 2015, he then went on to work at The Ravestijn Gallery based in Amsterdam. His most recent role at Millennium Images included running and managing the highly regarded photography competition Peaches and Cream. Throughout this period Jones has exhibited and curated exhibitions as well as taking shows to UNSEEN photo festival. In November 2018 he held first self lead solo exhibition / book launch, displaying his latest work ‘Scroll’ and a series of abstracted vinyl prints. His practice now surrounds the meeting between fabric and photography, working with vinyl at the core of his work. Hot Sheet is Jones's annual exhibition that he runs and curated a selected of emerging artist that work surrounds the photographic.
Lauren Wells - Curator
Daisy Corbin O'Grady - Copy Editor
Daisy is a producer, writer and editor working with visual journalism and storytelling. She has a passion for multidimensional experiences that explore the fertile ground between reality and imagination. Daisy has produced for film and print, co-edited the 2022 World Press Photo Yearbook, and her writing has been published in the art journal Culturala.