'Waiting Rooms'

Six photographers will exhibit images and installations responding to abandoned spaces in The Bear gallery, Camberwell from the 11th to the 15th of February.

The group has produced a collection of work to express their discontent at the slash and burn tactics employed by multi-million pound regeneration projects in our cities.

The stories of now inconvenient communities are being slowly buried beneath designer apartments and ill-judged infrastructure. Throwaway culture, integral to modern consumerism, seeps into attitudes towards private and public spaces; homes, hospitals, schools. No longer desirable to city developers and contractors they are simply rubbed out, glossed over and built on.

'Waiting Rooms' show the findings of the six as they explore the interim period for these forgotten places; between habitation and demolition. Embracing the Situanist spirit of 'the derive'[1] they have taken distinct lines of enquiry leading them from failed housing projects to reclaimed autonomous zones.



[1] The implication that cities have constant currents and vortexes which strongly discourage spontaneous entry and exit from certain points. We can disregard established routes and hop through holes, exposing predominately unlit corners of activity.


Magnus Andersson, Tom Groves, Hannah Lucy Jones, Robert Logan, Ben Pearson, John Weall

Preview Wednesday 11th February 6-9pm Preview
Thursday 12th February 6-9pm
Friday 13th February 6-10pm
Saturday 14th February 1-6pm
Sunday 15th February 2-6pm

The Bear, 296a Camberwell New Road, Camberwell, London SE5  http://www.thebear-freehouse.co.uk/