Jocelyn Allen
Photographer

Recently I discovered a photo book that I made when I was seven. I still have that 35mm camera that I used to take around with me often. Skip forward fifteen years and I’ve just completed a degree in Photographic Art. I love all areas of photography but especially portraiture, whilst my degree helped me embrace the conceptual side of photography. In the last year I’ve started taking a lot more self portraits. The process of making them and showing them has helped me grow into my skin…

Jocelyn Allen
Photographer

Recently I discovered a photo book that I made when I was seven. I still have that 35mm camera that I used to take around with me often. Skip forward fifteen years and I’ve just completed a degree in Photographic Art. I love all areas of photography but especially portraiture, whilst my degree helped me embrace the conceptual side of photography. In the last year I’ve started taking a lot more self portraits. The process of making them and showing them has helped me grow into my skin…

  • Adam Pendleton: To Divide By
    Sep 22, 2023 – Jan 15, 2024
    Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
    St. Louis, USA
    “What is your name?” “Where are you from?” “How did you end up here?” “Can you feel it?” “Does it hurt?” With these and other questions, the American artist Adam Pendleton’s solo exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum sets up an elaborate call-and-response network that articulates a sense of history as fragmented poetics. The exhibition will showcase a polyvocal assemblage of new and recent paintings, drawings, and video portraits that together reveal Pendleton’s interest in creating a conversation between mediums, as well as his belief in abstraction’s capacity to destabilize and disrupt. (more…)
  • Jananne Al-Ani / LANDMARKS
    Oct 10 – Nov 11, 2023
    Ab-Anbar Gallery
    London, UK
    Ab-Anbar presents Landmarks, a solo exhibition by London-based Iraqi-born artist Jananne Al-Ani. The exhibition spans more than two decades of photographic and moving image work, focusing on Al-Ani’s longstanding interest in the power of the gaze in response to lens-based technologies, the significance of eye-witness testimony, and the disappearance of the body in highly charged and contested landscapes. (more…)