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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-saturday-town-l
 aunch-event/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Saturday Town Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY TOWN\n11 APRIL - 18 MAY 2024\n\n\n\n\nLaunch event: 10
  April / 6 – 8 PM / RSVP\n\nSaturday Town is a photography series by th
 e award-winning photographer Casey Orr. Since 2013 Casey has travelled th
 roughout the UK with her pop-up portrait studio photographing young people
  on Saturday afternoons. The project explores fashion\, identity and the s
 elf-expression of young people on Saturday afternoons on the high streets 
 and public spaces of towns across the country.\n\nThis is the largest show
  of Saturday Town and Casey Orr’s first retrospective show.\n\nBronwyn A
 ndrews\, exhibition assistant curator and creative producer at Open Eye Ga
 llery\, said: “Are we different now? How do you picture yourself? How 
 does it feel to belong\, or rebel? What makes you feel like you? \n\nSatu
 rday Town acts as a mosaic of youth subculture\, fashion-dialects and self
  expression in the north of England over the last 11 years. Through a tumu
 ltuous period which has seen a global pandemic\, the dissolution of the ge
 nder binary and the death of the highstreet\, Casey Orr holds up a sign wh
 ich reads ‘These young people are important!’ \n\nOpen Eye Gallery ar
 e thrilled to host Casey Orr’s first retrospective and platform the uniq
 ue fashion and visual language of the north\, highlighting young people’
 s identities and style as culturally significant. We are delighted to faci
 litate conversations around belonging\, identity\, community and self repr
 esentation through this work. \n\nCasey Orr\, photographer\, said: “T
 he project acts as a witness to young lives. Taking these photographs cont
 inues to excite me as it evolves and refers to the times in which we live\
 , as well as a shared past that is reinvented and flows through new genera
 tions. Fashion and bodily self-expression are important and powerful tools
  for us all\, to state who we are beyond consumerism and capitalism\; beyo
 nd selfies and social media platforms”.\n\nSaturday Town started in 2013
  as Saturday Girl\, when Casey Orr started photographing young women in Le
 eds on Saturday afternoons and exploring what it meant in terms of culture
 \, tribe identities and values and how these things burst forth in the uns
 poken language of fashion and bodily self-expression.\n\nAfter that Casey 
 took the studio on the road throughout the UK\, visiting over 20  cities 
 and photographing over 800 people. Casey said\, “Liverpool women just bl
 ew me away with their style. The Liverpool aesthetic of wearing curlers in
  your hair whilst out shopping on a Saturday afternoon is just so playful 
 and expressive\, saying to the world: “I’m going out tonight!”\n\nSa
 turday Girl turned into Saturday Town\, as the project has developed into 
 a space for all gender expressions. The portraits aren’t styled beyond p
 ersonal decisions made in front of bedroom mirrors. These images are a doc
 ument of culture\, read through fashion.\n\nSaturday afternoons are spaces
  of freedom – from school\, family and institutions. Saturdays are often
  a time when groups of young friends gather together in city centres and h
 igh streets to shop and hang out\, to look and be seen.\n\nWe invite you t
 o the exhibition where every day is Saturday.\n\nImage: Casey Orr\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition Launch
LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
 , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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