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Friday March 30th – Saturday April 21st. Preview Thursday 29th (6pm – 8pm)

We are pleased to have Les Endormis (The Sleepers) by Stephen Gunning as our inaugural exhibition North of Monster Truck.

In the spring of 2011, as artist in residence, at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Gunning spent much time venturing into the streets and surrounding suburbs of Paris to photograph portraits and scenes of people sleeping against the urban landscape in a bid to explore the diversity of such a basic human experience.

While portrait photography more commonly captures expressions of the conscious mind that is aware of the cameras presence, here we get a glimpse of the unconscious.

Using only natural light, the intentional intimacy of the photographic approach, and a visual ethnography, these images are deliberately framed and shot to look painterly. The photos
are set to a recording Gunning made of the organ at the Basilica Sacre Coeur, Paris being tuned for a concert.

• 2012