Brighton Photo Biennial 2018: A New Europe
9th Aug 2018
Brighton Photo Biennial returns this Autumn (28 September – 28 October 2018) with a month of free photography exhibitions and events across Brighton & Hove. The Biennial is a Photoworks production and for this its eighth edition, it will be curated for the first time by Photoworks Director Shoair Mavlian, with the theme A New Europe.
A New Europe draws on one of the most important geopolitical events of our time. Our status in the European Union may be changing, yet geographically the United Kingdom will remain part of Europe – with a shared history and intertwined future. The festival will explore these topics by incorporating work from key practitioners alongside emerging talents. Showing contemporary perspectives, much of this work has been produced by young artists and in response to current uncertainty. Tereza Červeňová’s work charts the period since the referendum, while Émeric Lhuisset and Harley Weir’s projects focus on migration and the ongoing refugee crisis. New work by Donovan Wylie explores the geography of Britain as an island, simultaneously divided yet connected. The festival also looks back to the 1990s when the opening of The Channel Tunnel physically linked Britain to the continent for the first time in 12,000 years.
Image: © Émeric Lhuisset L’Autre Rive, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, Germany, France, Denmark, Syria, 2010-2018, showing for Brighton Photo Biennial 2018: A New Europe.