BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11952@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260606T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260711T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T104921Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/absence-stable-gallery/ SUMMARY:St George's Hall: Absence @ Stable Gallery DESCRIPTION:Launch: 5 June 2026 / 6-8pm / Stable Gallery\, St George’s H all / RSVP\n\nAbsence\, curated by sociologists Laura Harris and Maike P ötschulat\, is a new group exhibition that brings together the photogra phy of seven visual sociologists\, alongside finalists from an open call f or photography of absences in the Liverpool City Region.\n\nTaking place f rom 5 June 2026 to 11 July 2026 at Liverpool’s Stable Gallery\, St Georg e’s Hall\, the show explores absence as both a social reality and a visu al language. Across more than 100 photographs\, the show investigates abse nce’s many forms\, asking: What does it mean to document what is no long er there\, or those who are no longer present? How can we see what society leaves behind\, or what never came to be? How can we photograph what resi sts to be shown?\n\nMaike Pötschulat\, one of the exhibition’s curators \, said:\n‘Absence is not emptiness. Often\, what appears to be absent c an have a large footprint in our lives and societies while generating a wh ole host of activities. In this exhibition\, we wanted to focus on the way s in which absence is lived\, felt and practised to show what materialises in the gaps and voids that are left by an absence.’ \nThe exhibition i ncludes:\n\n Terence Heng’s photography of Bukit Brown Cemetery\, a Ch inese diaspora graveyard in Singapore\, exploring death\, one of the most evocative forms of absence. Heng’s work highlights how loss is a fertile ground for collective beliefs and practices.\n A selection of Setareh K azemi’s photojournalistic work in Iran\, with a focus on the lives of wo men and migrant communities who rarely find representation. Her work is a reminder of the power of photography to make visible experiences and peopl e that are frequently overlooked.\n Manal Massalha’s Standing Tall se ries\, which documents Palestinian life and hardship in the Occupied Terri tories in the West Bank. Here\, absence is not a noun but a verb\, where a process of violent ‘absenting’ is inflicted on Palestinian communitie s and lands.\n An extract of David Schalliol’s Isolated Building Stud ies\, selected from a portfolio of over 700 images. As a broader commentar y on urban and social change in Chicago\, these images feature stand-alone buildings that are the last\, or first\, remnants of physical and social neighbourhoods.\n Makeshift\, in which Paweł Starzec revisits sites of the Bosnian War with the muted pastel aesthetic of his photography in sta rk contrast to the atrocities that happened in the photographed places. St arzec’s work is a critical commentary on the way power manipulates what and who is remembered.\n Gesche Würfel’s The Absence and Presence of The Berlin Wall\, a comprehensive research project that speaks to the trac es of the wall in material and psychic terms. We exhibit composite images that were created on Würfel’s cycle along the 160km Berlin Wall Trail.\ n Five polaroids\, all of which for unknown reasons shed their owners and now exist alongside the 4000 images in Kyler Zeleny’s Found Polaroid  archive. While their original context is forever lost\, the displayed po laroids feature flash fiction that was written to reanimate them.\n Runni ng alongside the exhibition are the submissions from an Open Call for pho tography of absence in the Liverpool City Region\, which generated hundr eds of images that highlight how absence is woven into the built and socia l fabric of the area. Five finalists\, whose work is exhibited\, are:\n\n\ n Daniel Frost\n Alishah Iqbal\n Paradise Made\n Dan Murphy\n Claire Weetman\n\nTILT special edition\n\nAn accompanying special issue of Open E ye Gallery’s magazine\, TILT\, will launch at the opening of the exhibit ion. The magazine features specially commissioned texts on the theme of ab sence and an expanded selection of images from every photographer’s proj ect. TILT will be available online for free at Open Eye Gallery’s websit e\, or in print from their bookshop (£5). The magazine will also feature images received through the open call by:\n\n Ellie Byrne\n Angela Cheve au\n Alan Colclough\n Emily Gerrard\n Jean Kane\n Nicolas Kendall\n J une Poston\n Andrew Stewart\n Andrew Wilson\n\nPublic events programme\n \nFunded by the British Academy’s BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Pr ogramme and Liverpool John Moores University’s FSC Research Development Fund\, the exhibition also includes a series of public events. There will be several opportunities to see the exhibition together with the photograp hers\, curators and organisers for the launch weekend which includes the f ollowing activities:\n\n 6 June 2026\, 2.30–4pm: Exhibition tour with c urators and photographers at Stable Gallery (book your free ticket)\n 6 J une 2026\, 5–7pm: Absence in conversation. Panel discussion at Open Ey e Gallery followed by reception (book your free ticket)\n 10 June 2026\, 2–3pm: Exhibition tour with curators at Stable Gallery (book your fre e ticket)\n 13 June 2026\, 1–2pm: Exhibition tour with curators at St able Gallery (book your free ticket)\n\nWith support from: The British Ac ademy\, Liverpool John Moores University\, Open Eye Gallery\, Stable Galle ry\, University of Southampton. 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