Indoor
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 photoshoots with 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.
Oliver Frank Chanarin is laureate of the Images Vevey Research & Developpement Grant, with the support of Nestlé, for his project A Perfect Sentence.
Exhibition layout and design by Images Vevey and the artist
Commissioned and produced by Forma, in collaboration with 8 UK organisations, in association with Images Vevey. With the support of Arts Council England, Art Fund, Outset Contemporary Art Fund
