ANDREW WARSTAT
After The Disaster
O U T P O S T
Preview: Saturday 1st March, 6 to 9pm
On view: 2nd to 21st March
12noon to 6pm daily
OUTPOST presents Andrew Warstat, whose exhibition, After The Disaster, combines ruined images and literary encounters.
Warstat is exhibiting a collection of photo-objects which have been produced through a repeated process of photographing, printing, defacement and re-photographing. These photo-objects move back and forth through a landscape of pictured and re-enacted devastation, refracting our preconceived image of disaster.
The photo-objects lie against a large expanse of text that transcribes a conversation. The individuals in the conversation are anonymous, but we might suppose - given OUTPOST’s tradition of interviewing exhibiting artists – that they are the artist and one or more OUTPOST artist-members. The dialogue follows the participants’ attempts to talk about writing. Its content is considered but the structure is improvised. The miscommunication inherent in the conversation generates revision and correction that mimic the process of looking at the photo-objects installed in the gallery space.
A second encounter with the photo-objects occurs in the publication which has been produced to accompany the exhibition. Here, Warstat's photographic constructs are printed alongside an essay by writer Mike Phillipson, who makes connections between Warstat, representation and survival. In the process, Phillipson maps out his own philosophy of disaster.
Andrew Warstat has shown at the Cubitt Gallery, London and South Hill Park, Berkshire. He jointly curated Empty, Swept and Garnished in a derelict, town-centre office block in Shrewsbury. He is currently studying for his PhD in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

ONGOING WORK – ONGOING DISASTER
As the concluding part of the exhibition After The Disaster by Andrew Warstat, the walls at OUTPOST will be the scene of a final act of de-facement.
The images on display during the past two weeks were products of Warstat’s archival practice of recording and destroying newspaper photographs of disaster scenes on a daily basis. As the final part of this exhibition the mounted photos will be torn from the wall as part of the ongoing process of re-creation, leaving just the trace of an image and a reference to the white surface underneath the grey paint.
The removed material will be fed back in to Warstat’s process of image obliteration and re-capture, and the concluding performance will be one more stage in the action of making new work.
The final days of the exhibition, Monday 17 to Friday 21, March, will feature the remnants of the After The Disaster photo objects.


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