Photo50 is the Fair’s critical forum for examining elements of photographic practice
PHOTO50 PANEL - PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE AND PERFORMANCE
Rodrigo Orrantia, Sian Bonnell, and Shepherd Manyika
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Photo50 is the Fair’s critical forum for examining distinctive elements of current photographic practice. For 2022, Photo50 is curated by Rodrigo Orrantia presenting works by British and UK-based artists responding to the idea of an island, looking at practices expanding the possibilities of photography. This panel chaired by Rodrigo Orrantial explores photography, sculpture and performance in conversation with artists Sian Bonell and Shepherd Manyika.
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PANELLISTS:
Rodrigo Orrantia, Curator of Photo50:
Rodrigo Orrantia is an independent curator, interested in expanded practices of photography also working with sculpture, performance and localised installation. Orrantia believes that exhibitions and publications are devices for experimentation and debate, where curators can work with artists from the outset of the project in a collaborative way. He is particularly interested in the connections between photography, geography and place, especially the topical relationship between nature and humans in the geologic time of the Anthropocene. Following this interest, in 2017 he was awarded Format Festival’s Habitat Award for an exhibition project entitled Modern Ornithologies, an experimental installation featuring a selection of photo books and films placed within the collection of Pickford’s House Museum in Derby. In 2020 he was the winner of the Landskrona Foto Festival Open Call, with an exhibition project entitled The State of Things, another experimental installation, this time inviting five artists to respond to the architecture and history of this Swedish town. Orrantia believes that contemporary photographic practices interested in the materiality of the medium could also be interested in its history, and certainly in its many adjacent worlds, from printmaking through to sculpture, film and video, and live performance.
Sian Bonnell, Artist: Sian Bonnell is a UK based artist, living and working in West Yorkshire. Her work is concerned with concepts surrounding photography and its relations with objects, environment and performance. Her work has been exhibited and published widely and is held in many public and corporate collections notably, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, the Ransom Center, Texas and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
Shepherd Manyika, Artist: Shepherd Manyika is a London based artist-educator whose works take on multiple formats and mediums. He is interested in memory play, identity and representation. Most recently repair and collaboration and re-orientation through art have become part of the making process. Manyika graduated with BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2011 and MA in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication from Central Saint Martins in 2019. Shepherd Manyika has also exhibited with Iniva, AIR,Forced Collaboration, Asc Gallery Artlicks Weekend,South London Gallery, Tate, Spike Island, Camden Arts Centre, Milton Keynes Arts Centre and Cement Fields.