Exhibition Description

¹footnotes brings together five photographic practices that approach storytelling through fragments, traces, and quiet gestures rather than through linear narratives. Like footnotes in text, these works offer context, interruption, and alternate readings of the images we encounter.

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This collective uses photography in a way of translating stories about memory as it deteriorates over time, bodies as sites of labour and emotion, and images as unstable carriers of meaning. Whether through documentation, machine misrecognition, portraiture, or acts of erasure and concealment, each artist treats the photograph as something to be read as much as seen.

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Graeme’s long-term documentary work frames daily life as a personal archive shaped by time and aesthetics. Moon’s work reflects on book burning and the fragility of recorded knowledge through destruction and concealment. François reduces images until artificial intelligence can no longer identify them, exposing moments where certainty gives way to error and misinformation. Laurynn’s series considers the body as an archive, tracing labour, care, and repetition through the marks left behind on skin. Zachary’s portraits confront the viewer with stillness and resistance, turning looking into a physical and emotional exchange.

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Together, these works suggest that photographs function less as complete statements and more as annotations; partial records shaped by memory, technology, and human presence. ¹footnotes invites viewers to linger with what is often overlooked or misread, and to consider how meaning is built through time, attention, and the spaces in between.