Catalogue of an exhibition in the Sir Robert Martin Hall gallery of Loughborough University in November 2024, featuring a group of photographic art-works by British artist Tim Head.
Text by Phillip Lindley, Softback, 200 x 240 mm, 19pp., with 17 colour illustrations.
Publication-date 20 November 2024,
ISBN 978-1-9993285-7-3
These works, composed from photographic prints, are almost unknown. Apart from a group exhibition at Parafin in 2017, none has previously been shown in the UK and few have previously been discussed in print.
Head made these composite photographic works in 1982. They refer back to George Orwell’s great novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and forward to the year itself. It was much debated whether the UK was sliding closer to Orwell’s dystopian vision of repression, mass surveillance, historical negationism and totalitarianism: and Head’s photographic collages were decisively shaped by these cultural concerns. Today, more than four decades later, the dangers to individual liberty articulated by Orwell’s now-familiar neologisms – Newspeak, memory holes, doublethink and thoughtcrime – are more menacing than ever and existential cultural and political threats are all around us.
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