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Alexandra Waespi @ Hackney Gallery
51.546260 -0.027346 , #4 (2023)
30″ x 40″ C-Print, edition of 3
Polaroid negative, bleached and scanned
Alexandra Waespi: Hackney Rose
February 27 – March 2nd
Zine launch – February 27th
Canadian-born and of Belizean-Swiss decent, Waespi has lived in London for ten years working as a photographer. She has passion for analogue photography and experimentation within the medium, as is epitomized in the Hackney Rose series, for which Waespi uses now discontinued Polaroid peel apart film.
After moving to Hackney Wick, Waespi was struck by the number of roses in the area. Labeling each work by geolocation, Waespi’s map of roses is both a physical and psychogeographic survey of the area. The phrase ‘English rose’ lingers in Waespi’s mind as she photographs them. The rose as an emblem of England has been tangled in monarchy and religion, but, to the people, the rose typically means something beyond these constructs: the wild and the uncontrollable; the beauty and tenacity of nature; the natural world’s perennial ability to transcend the mortal concerns of human beings.
Hackney Gallery
1 Lower Clapton Road, E5 0NS
Location: England, London Type: Exhibition
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