Hope is an Anti-inflammatory
02.10-17.10.2025
'Hope is an anti-inflammatory' is an exhibition of photographs entangling experiences of care and carelessness between bodies, and between species. Seeking to challenge the vertical subject [of photography], it presents work Orton made after a long period of illness. Using collage, re-printing and text, Orton considers how images might both document and reimagine, expose and protect their vulnerable subjects.
Exhibition Photograph - 02.10.2025
'Horizontal subjects, nearly always women, are rarely protagonists – they are usually passive, erotic, mad, ill or asleep. From my bed, where I was stuck sometimes for weeks, I wanted to dismantle this verticality, to reclaim the image of horizontality and not be its victim.' - Liz Orton
Exhibition Photograph - 02.10.2025
Exhibition Photograph - 02.10.2025
Exhibition Photograph - 02.10.2025
'And then there was the book itself, Rochford’s Book of Houseplants, pages of which I use in the work...It has a lot of photographs, taken in that classic natural history style, where nature is staged and becomes decontextualized, like a specimen. I noticed that the landscape photographs had been rotated by 90° to fit the format of the book, and I saw myself in this gesture, a reorientation from upright to sideways.' - Liz Orton
Exhibition Photograph - 02.10.2025
Exhibition Opening Photograph - 02.10.2025
Exhibition Opening Photograph - 02.10.2025
