2009
Digital print on Hannemuele photo rag with hand-stamped, hand-stitched laser cut Braille
28 x 56 cm
Edition size: 10
29 September - 6 November 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
Alastair Whitton’s Patmos and the War at Sea will be shown in Cape Town at iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art in October 2010. Arts writer Mary Corrigall has described the body of work as a series of “astute statements…about the relationship between language and imagery that challenge our expectations of photography.”
Whitton was one of four South Africans selected for the 2009 African Photography Biennial where his work was hosted by the Musee Nationale du Mali in Bamako. In his review of this international cultural event featuring photography and video from more than fifty artists from the African continent, Antawan Byrd highlights Whitton’s work as showing “real critical and conceptual engagement”. The 8th Bamako Encounters African Photography Biennial travels to FotoMusuem in Antwerp in February 2010 before coming to South Africa where it will be hosted by both the Johannesburg Art Gallery (June 2010) and the Iziko South African National Gallery (October 2010).
Selected works from Patmos and the War at Sea were also shown at the 2009 EAB Fair in New York and in Lees tussen die lyne / Read between the Lines in collaboration with iArt Gallery at the US Woordfees in Stellenbosch, March 2010.
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Alastair Whitton, interviewed by Jacqueline Nurse
Alastair Whitton’s Encrypted Island
Review of Patmos and the War at Sea, by Tim James