A Chain of Wooded Mountains - Publication

KEEM's first publication A Chain of Wooded Mountains has arrived back from the printers, and includes a specially commissioned text by writer Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau.

We are now looking into various options, and meeting with different print companies, before we go ahead with producing a limited edition print-run of the book.

More information coming soon...

Forthcoming Publication

Following on from the exhibition A Chain of Wooded Mountains, which took place during Photomonth 2012, KEEM have begun work on their book of the same title. This will form the third and final stage of a lengthy process of discussion, interpretation and collaboration.

We are very excited to be working with writer Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, who will be producing a text to accompany the work.

The book will be published later this year.

Bird On A Wire

In the process of editing A Chain of Wooded Mountains we were struck by these seven images, each of them different but all of the same scene. We question why this scene generated more photographs than any other in the series.

The sprawling cemeteries, and the black bird on the wire, stand out in front of us as we look down from the surrounding hills on a city that suffered the longest siege of any in the history of modern warfare.

A Chain of Wooded Mountains - installation photos

A Chain of Wooded Mountains at Long White Cloud Gallery, 151 Hackney Road, London, E2 8JL 
Exhibition dates: 1 November – 12 November

Click here for further information about the project.

This is a KEEM exhibition, featuring as part of Photomonth 2012

With many thanks to Eva Eicker and Karen McQuaid for their curatorial advice and assistance.   

Private View: A Chain of Wooded Mountains

On Thursday 1 November the KEEM exhibition A Chain of Wooded Mountains opened at Long White Cloud Gallery as part of Photomonth 2012.  The exhibition continues until 12 November. Installation shots to follow...

photo © Stephanie Bosset

Press Release: 

Last October KEEM travelled to the Balkans, taking 3 cameras and shooting 1237 photographs in 10 days. What happens when two people take the same trip, see the same things, and hold the same cameras? When does the memory of physically taking a photograph merge into the memory of the image produced? Through the amalgamation of two individuals' memories, boundaries start to blur, and lines start to cross over. 

 

There are common themes that run throughout the images, bringing elements of the individual practice of each of the KEEM artists to the forefront: the body, people in the landscape, architecture, the presence of two individuals, an intimate relationship.

Both members of KEEM have made a personal edit of 80 images from the original 1237 photographs. Here, they have selected a series of diptychs previously undisclosed to each other. The act of editing has taken on the same importance as the initial act of taking the photographs - opening up the first chance for conversation, comparison and influence.

Long White Cloud Gallery 151 Hackney Road, London, E2 8JL

Exhibition dates: 1 November – 12 November

Exhibition: A Chain of Wooded Mountains

In under a month KEEM will be showing the next installment of A Chain of Wooded Mountains at Long White Cloud 151 Hackney Road, E2 8JL, as part of Photomonth 2012.

Both members of KEEM have made a personal edit of 80 images from the original 1237 photographs they took during a trip to the Balkans last year. For this exhibition, they will select and display a series of diptychs previously undisclosed to each other - opening up the first chance for conversation, comparison and influence.

 

Exhibition dates: 01 Nov - 14 Nov

Private View: Thursday 1st November 6pm

Opening hours: Mon - Fri 7am-6pm & Sat - Sun 8am-5pm

Hoxton Overground or Buses 55, 48, 28  

http://longwhitecloudhoxton.com/files/exhibitions/

The Postcard Project

Earlier this year KEEM went to Kiev for the city's first Biennale of Contemporary Art. Whilst there they searched the city for scenes from archetypal postcard imagery. Through performance and montage they then intercepted these scenes, creating two personalised versions of the generic postcard.

The Postcard Project, 2012

The postcards are being sent to Kiev for free distribution.