FAMILY TIES
Photography Exhibition
Curator – Kasia Kowalska
The Gallery Café
2nd – 29th July 2024
Family Ties features thirteen artists who address compelling questions around how photography can both shape and reveal our distinctive perspectives on the subjects of memory, family, migration and temporality.
Petya Abraham | Giulia Ballarin | Mina Boromand | Alba de la Cruz | Ania Dąbrowska
Cristina Filimon | Nina Ijomone |Kasia Kowalska |Therry Maltauro |Heather McDonough
Angela Moreno Dilyana Tankova | Fiona Yaron-Field
We are made of pieces of the past, and the future is made of pieces of us.’
Angela Moreno, Renegotiating identity through the family album, 2022
Can a photograph stand in for a memory?
How does photography shape our memories and experience?
Can a photographic image reinforce or reshape our familial ties?
What do photographs reveal about how we interact with our families?
Does the experience of migration alter our relationship with family photographs?
Petya Abraham
Pass the Love Forward I, 2022
Alba de la Cruz
El manton de la abuela: Cara B, 2022
Considering these and many other questions, the artists in this exhibition offer their contemporary response and make evident why the family photographic archive remains a central subject in photography, and invite us to delve deeper into the myriad connections between the photographic image, temporality, migration and memory.
Nina Ijomone
Navigating Domestic Legacies II, 2023
Giulia Ballarin
Of memory and belonging I, 2022
All the exhibiting artists are associated with London Metropolitan University’s Photography degree course - be it as students, alumnae or tutors - and thus belong to its unique photographic community.
Ania Dabrowska
Lollipop, 2021
Family Ties exhibition is curated by Kasia Kowalska, a Polish-born photographic artist living and working in London. She is a British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain winner and Association of Photographers Student Awards winner. She graduated in BA Photography from London Metropolitan University in 2023. She recently curated Underground Portraits by Wolfgang Strassl photography exhibition at Photobook Café.
Therry Maltauro
Me Mum and Dad 1969, 2023
The curator is especially grateful to Virginia Orr, Exhibition Coordinator at St. Margaret’s House, for her guidance and support.
The curator also wishes to thank all the exhibiting artists for their participation, as well as Nina Ijomone, Cristina Filimon, Ania Dąbrowska and Mina Boromand for their contribution in shaping this exhibition.
Graphic Design: Nina Ijomone Studio @ninaijomone
Instagram: Cristina Filimon @crissfilimon
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Cristina Filimon
Sisters II, 2024