Open Eye for Liverpool Biennial 2016

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Open Eye for Liverpool Biennial 2016

Open Eye Gallery, Waterfront
9 July-16 October 2016

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Koki Tanaka, Provisional Studies Action #6, 1985 School Students’ Strike, 2016. Installation view at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 2016. Photo: Mark McNulty.
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The only gallery dedicated to photography and related media in the North West, Open Eye is host to three different artists during the Biennial. Koki Tanaka has recreated and filmed a strike in 1985 where around 10,000 children took to the streets of the city in protest against the Conservative government’s Youth Training Scheme – an initiative intended to reduce youth unemployment, but which was instead criticised as a means of providing cheap labour without guarantees. The work feels pointedly relevant to our society today.

Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian, installation view at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 2016. Photo: Mark McNulty.
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian, installation view at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 2016. Photo: Mark McNulty.

Also adopting film as their medium, artists Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni (exhibiting at venues throughout the Biennial) present La Vallée Von Uexküll, a series of films of sunsets taken on cameras each bought by the artists after a significant jump in image resolution. The series will be complete when the camera can capture more than the human eye.

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