- Venue
- Rough Trade East
- Starts
- Saturday, October 1, 2011
- Ends
- Monday, October 31, 2011
- Address
- Old Truman Brewery 91 Brick Lane E1 6QL
- Location
- London
Held as part of Photomonth 2011, East London’s International Photography Festival. Vinyl Replay is a unique visual exploration of a vinyl record collection. In the studio and on location, Constantine Gras has used long exposures, often with a camera in motion, to reinterpret his dusty and scratched vinyl records. These records range from 1966 Beach Boys up until his last days of active vinyl collecting from Mole Jazz in the early 1990′s. Constantine re-invokes the space and time of this analogue existence: early days of collective family listening; rushing down to Woolworth’s with pocket money to buy singles; the flowering of sexual identity in post-punk teens; and the outrage and civil disobedience against Thatcherite Britain. A short film and book launch will be held as part of the exhibition. Private View Tuesday October 4th: 6:30pm – 9pm. Constantine Gras is a multi-media artist, working on an environmental project called Water – Way of Life which is a 2012 Cultural Olympiad project. He made his debut short film, Flood Light, as a commission for the InTRANSIT festival and is currently working with Groundwork London on a wind turbine and film making project at Brent River Park.
