I-D National at Portfolio Gallery and 369 Gallery,
Edinburgh, Scotland.
National Identity in the New Europe
5 December 1992 - 16 January 1993
Tuesday - Saturday 12:00 - 5:30
©
Victor Sloan
Ania Bien, Netherlands
Andre Jasinski, Belgium
Per Bak Jensen, Denmark
Astrid Klien, Germany
Michael Medinger, Luxenburg
Leonel Moura, Portugal
Ron O’Donnell, UK
Cristina Garcia Rodero, Spain
Victor Sloan,
Ireland
John Stathatos Greece
Matthias Wähner, Germany
Nancy Wood situates the exhibition within
contemporary politics and culture and traces the links between
memory, history and national identity.
“The photographs assembled for this exhibition
clearly do not follow a starkly- defined and didactic agenda and
indeed their power would be considerably reduced if they did so.
However their common ground, across the heterogeneous imagistic
spaces of Europe which they traverse, is a shared engagement with
two of the most determining features of national identity: history
and memory…
“It would be tempting to conclude that I-D NATIONALE
is an exemplary expression of an emerging European sensibility… But
the photographs taken individually or together resist such an
expedient interpretation. Rather than viewing the exhibition as a
collective manifesto on behalf of a new politics of identity, it
would be more fitting to see it as an intervention in this
politics, which stages a collision of images of identity, and of the
memories which sustain them.”
NANCY WOOD
An 80-page catalogue of the exhibition, containing 40
exquisite colour and duotone plates, is available at the galleries
and by mail order.
The catalogue contains essays by David Mellor, Senior
Lecturer in History of Art at Sussex University, and Nancy Wood,
Lecturer in Media Studies in the school of European Studies in the
school of European Studies at Sussex University.
The
exhibition is financially assisted by
The European Arts Festival
The Kaleidoscope Fund (EC)
The Arts Council of Great Britain, International Initiatives Fund
The Scottish Arts Council
Sponsored by Commpress
Funded by BSIS
Portfolio Gallery
43 Candlemaker
Row
Edinburgh
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