A Perfect Sentence
A Perfect Sentence is an installation combining analogue photography and a state-of-the-art robotic system. Between 2021 and 2022, Oliver Frank Chanarin travelled across the UK and, between exchanges with strangers and photographing different communities, he produced a series that reveals post-Brexit society in all its diversity. The photographer develops images in the darkroom and retains the test prints that record the development process. In contrast to this technique, he chose to present them in an automated process. In a continuous motion, a robotic arm selects a photograph from an archive of over 150 framed works, hangs it and juxtaposes it according to an impenetrable algorithm. The monumental installation reveals the tension between human and machine and reflects on technologies from the past and the future.
