Ken Taylor

Veils & Repetitions

16th March - 6th May 2014

This wallet of 12 postcards has been made to correspond with Ken Taylor’s show of photographs in the m2 Gallery, Peckham, London. The images have primarily been taken in 2013 at various locations in Europe. They divide themselves into two series, Veils and Repetitions, that are juxtaposed in the seven gallery presentations. Each week two new images will be pasted on top of the previous ones, echoing the “archeological” layering and scale of billposters. This repeating process will effectively veil the previous weeks photographs.

The photographs were not taken with the words Veils and Repetitions in mind; rather they are a record of where the eye has led the camera. With this journeying, roving sensibility, all the photographs have been taken “practically” rather than “technically”, with an ordinary digital pocket camera, on the automatic setting, in natural light. This seems to fit their “as found, at that moment” quality; seeing the ordinary as extraordinary.

Choosing the images to contribute to each diptych was largely intuitive, but brought forth strong un-thought of associations as well as more tangential alliances. Whatever the case, their original relationships of time and place have to a degree been “lost” and reinvented in their new dialogues. The fact that this postcard format encourages them to venture globally, further endorses their potential for getting “lost”. Hopefully they are destined to find a good home and enlighten it in some way.

Ken Taylor is 5 minutes younger than his twin sister and is an architect who takes a lot of photographs. He is the co-curator and director of the m2 gallery with artist Julia Manheim and is currently building two houses out of solid laminated timber panels ..... amongst other things.