IF YOU’VE SEEN IT, YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT
IF YOU'VE SEEN IT, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT is a new exhibition of poetry and photography by poet, performer and theatre maker Ellen Renton on now at Agitate Gallery.
About IF YOU’VE SEEN IT, YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT
IF YOU'VE SEEN IT, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT is a new exhibition of poetry and photography by poet, performer and theatre maker Ellen Renton. It asks the question: how do you reconcile visually impaired identity with the act of photography?
Ellen’s experiences in arts galleries as a visually impaired person have shaped her thoughts about the gallery experience she wanted to create for this exhibition. Visitors to IF YOU'VE SEEN IT, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT will listen to an audio guide leading them through a series of images. A character in itself, the guide takes on the role of an unreliable narrator with a shifting tone – at times direct, at points abstractly poetic, and sometimes reflective. These inconsistencies and fluctuations in approach conjure up questions around the ways in which our eyes and our minds often sit at odds with each other. How many ways can an image be read? Is seeing really believing?
This exhibition at Agitate Gallery is the culmination of a research project undertaken by Ellen with the support of an artist associateship from Disability Arts Online and the Edwin Morgan Trust.
Ellen’s work was inspired by Edwin Morgan's instamatic poetry which he wrote about photographs taken in locations as varied as Chicago, Renfrewshire, Venice, Nigeria, and translunar space. The title of Ellen’s exhibition, IF YOU'VE SEEN IT, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, comes from another series of Morgan’s work, the news-poems.
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