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After seeing franks raffles exhibition I dodnt connect much with the photography and curation of this one.

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JOANNE COATES

Rural life and it’s often overlooked challenges. The reality of the lives of those who inhabit these places. Contrast usurpations and looks into the roots of a place and the communities in them.

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Difficult and personal subjects to approach especially camera in hand. She would’ve had to build a trusting and personal rlationship with many of these subjects to be allowed into their homes and document their lives.

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Displaying text and images together. The exhibition displays her journals and diary eateries

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Looking at things that unite woman globally, not just in Scotland. Looking at female shared values etc

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Stared her journey in documentary photography in her home town. She took photos of women at work in the landscape around her. In factories and on farms

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The film starts by filming humans, walking and dancing and a layered commentary prescribing doctors treatments. It then cuts to films showing sections of mechanical processes. The commentary spins begins again, introduced with a pregnant female body, the screen glitching and the voices echoed across the room, indecifrable. The clag of metal is heat and a quiet ringing sounds in the room. The sculptures also make noises of their own, indicative of engines and machines.

Nothing is too loud or overwhelming, the ears are tickled by the sounds about the space.

The lights behind the projector interact with the image too. When there is an explosion, the lights flicker and die.

Subtitles are also shown on the screen and reflect words and sentences heard from around the room.

At the end of the film, a voice genteelly describes the process of an epidural while the screen shows an film of an asbestos filled explosion in a grey stone landscape. Suddenly it cuts to machinery banging metal brutally. The screen then goes back and we hear hospital beeping and a woman breathing slowly.

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There is careful attention to the exposed spaces between the canvas where the viewer can see the construction and back of the artworks punctuated with vertical and diagonal sticks of warm light.

When the projector plays the film, the sound that passes through the from from speaker to speaker is haunting and eerie. High pitch strings play under a montage of voices that prescribe remedies for illness and repetition of “these are things you need to talk to your doctor about” in a female American accent. It seems alien and commercial.

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As sounds of whirring engines come softy out the speakers, the effect of their vibrations ripple the soft metallic surface they’re placed behind. It creates wobbled shadows on the floor that look like the ripples of water. Then the speaker stops and for 30 seconds or so the movement ceases.

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Speakers projecting sounds are visibly placed in front of her canvases, one at each panel.

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MANUAL LABOUR, Hannah Perry

-motherhood, labour and class

-sound, sculpture (car lacquer, steel, body wrap associated with manual occupations in manuracting industry)

-choreographed mechanical sculptures to consider the physical act of labour

-transition into motherhood reflected by soaring sounds, images and speech