Artists: Gabriel Kuri

Dates: 06.10.06 - 29.10.06

Venue: Various Public Venues

As artist-in-residence at the University of Brighton Design Archives, Gabriel Kuri's intervention As Selected for the Design Centre, London in Brighton's civic spaces moved photography quite literally out of the archive and into the public arena.

Taking as his starting point a pristine black and white image from 1956 of domestic tableware from the Design Council Archive, Kuri's project reflected on the immaculate and unsoiled pictorial aesthetic that was characteristic not only of the Design Council’s post-war photography but also of an era of unbridled enthusiasm for modernity and progress.

Venues:

1 Stop-Travel, Brighton Station entrance
Inside Out, 95 Gloucester Road, Brighton BN1
Kensingtons, 1-2 Kensington Gardens, Brighton BN1
Steamer Trading, 35 Ship Street, Brighton BN1
Pussy, 3 Bartholomews, Brighton BN1

This project was made possible thanks to an award from the Faculty of Research Support Fund, Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Brighton.

A University of Brighton Design Archives Public Art Project in collaboration with Brighton Photo Biennial.