Julie Meyer
No Place to Hide
10th January - 25th February 2013
’Walking around the Peckham area, I noticed plenty of objects left on the street. I used a disposable camera to shoot pictures of these items constituting Peckham’s identity. I crossed the neighbourhood collecting images of abandoned objects. These ruins are embodied by old furniture in a state of decay, buildings in mutation, posters on walls. All these traces are proof of everyday life. They are evidence of the neighbourhood’s movement. The French writer George Perec would have called these facts “Infra-ordinaire”.
The show “No place to hide” presents a photographic portrait of streets in Peckham. The photos are shown pinned up in the gallery window in reference to small ads and as a means of giving these objects a second life. The title “No place to hide” came from a book lying beside a bin on Queen’s Road.’
Julie Meyer is an artist who uses video, photography and sound to explore connections between the moving and static image. Inspired by architectural essays, travelogues or science fiction novels, her art research investigates city fringes and landscape borders. She is interested in empty spaces where the passage of inhabitants is visible. She crosses suburban areas, no-man's land or the edges of cities, collecting pictures of these landscapes.
Julie Meyer has a BA and MA in Fine Arts from the School of Fine Arts in Strasbourg, France. She lives and works in France and has exhibited her work internationally. She has won several awards and in 2012 completed a residency called ‘Sail the World’ an AIR Programme aboard a sailing ship across the Atlantic Ocean.
