© VOID Collective - ‘The New Black’ Online Exhibition.
‘The New Black’ is an online exhibition curated by Jacob Weeks and Rachel Letchford for VOID Collective. All of the work on show responds in some form to ‘The New Black’, a theme borrowed from Darian Leaders 2009 publication of the same name.
‘There is a thread that runs through the THE NEW BLACK, which has to do with what in a human life can be turned into a story, and what can’t. What is susceptible to some forms of symbolisation and narrativisation, and what isn’t? And what do people do with what can’t be taken up into story? And what rules, methods, practices do people adopt to deal with those residues, those remainders?’ - Darian Leader.
© VOID Collective, Elena Helfrecht, Sarm Micciche, Tom Groves & Marianne Walker - ‘The New Black’ Artists Interviews.
I am pleased to feature as one of twenty-seven exhibiting artists within the exhibition which opened on the 27th October. ‘The New Black’ includes four interviews with the artists; Elena Helfrecht, Tom Groves, Sarm Micciche & Marianne Walker and contains a wide range of multidisciplinary work.
Photographic images from my series ‘Residues’ (2020) are one of the works featured within this exhibition. From a technical perspective, the photographs incorporate found-photography, chemical manipulation and photomontage. However conceptually, they deal with the pain of loss and the human obsession to prevent the inevitability of death. More from this series can be found on my website here.
© VOID Collective - ‘Residues’ (2020) by Sid White-Jones.
You can visit the exhibition and read the four accompanying artists interviews here or by visiting the exhibitions menu on the VOID Collective website.