A event on Tuesday 21st November. The event starts at 16:00.
Venue - Museum Of Totterdown
Address - The Container, Zone A, Wells Road, corner of Firfield St, Totterdown, Bristol
The Exhibition:
For decades, Mochnacz has collected, categorised and archived the discarded, thrown-away mementoes and souvenirs of her ‘foundland’.
She has concentrated her archives into ‘target’ sub-groupings and has methodically, almost forensically, recorded their domain, class, family, genus etc.
It is in this relentless cataloguing of the discarded that revelations begin to emerge, that the human hand is exposed and expressed. Mochnacz’s collections are truly epic in scale and ambition and, through them, she tells of the untold and encourages us to see the unseen and hear the unheard.
Maria Mochnacz is an artist & portrait photographer. She has worked for over 30 years with musicians & bands on record sleeves, photo shoots, music videos & styling. Her most well-known work has been with P J Harvey with whom she has worked extensively.
She has run artist talks & screenings about her photography & video work and is an occasional associate lecturer at UWE.
Her personal artwork is about accumulation & repetition - collecting, classifying and methodically excavating frugal, everyday materials. She has used newspapers & magazines as her main source material since at Art School (Coventry Polytechnic 1983-86 ) and has amassed over 3000 lost or discarded street objects in 60 categories. “Foundland" is a small glimpse of Mochnacz’s collection.
Since opening on Thursday 16th November, the tiny gallery has seen 100s of visitors squeeze in through its doors to wonder, laugh and even cry at this unique collection. The exhibition runs until Saturday 25th November at 6pm.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Address - The Container, Zone A, Wells Road, corner of Firfield St, Totterdown, Bristol
The Exhibition:
For decades, Mochnacz has collected, categorised and archived the discarded, thrown-away mementoes and souvenirs of her ‘foundland’.
She has concentrated her archives into ‘target’ sub-groupings and has methodically, almost forensically, recorded their domain, class, family, genus etc.
It is in this relentless cataloguing of the discarded that revelations begin to emerge, that the human hand is exposed and expressed. Mochnacz’s collections are truly epic in scale and ambition and, through them, she tells of the untold and encourages us to see the unseen and hear the unheard.
Maria Mochnacz is an artist & portrait photographer. She has worked for over 30 years with musicians & bands on record sleeves, photo shoots, music videos & styling. Her most well-known work has been with P J Harvey with whom she has worked extensively.
She has run artist talks & screenings about her photography & video work and is an occasional associate lecturer at UWE.
Her personal artwork is about accumulation & repetition - collecting, classifying and methodically excavating frugal, everyday materials. She has used newspapers & magazines as her main source material since at Art School (Coventry Polytechnic 1983-86 ) and has amassed over 3000 lost or discarded street objects in 60 categories. “Foundland" is a small glimpse of Mochnacz’s collection.
Since opening on Thursday 16th November, the tiny gallery has seen 100s of visitors squeeze in through its doors to wonder, laugh and even cry at this unique collection. The exhibition runs until Saturday 25th November at 6pm.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions