- Venue
- Hanover Building Bhailok Street UCLan Preston PR1 2HE contact: [email protected] +44 (01772 893346 Ext: 3346 24/02/15 - 18/03/15 Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm Images courtesy of Alexander Cutler
- Location
- North West England
Andy Broadey / Frances Richardson
with text by Suzana Milevska
For this exhibition I was invited by Hanover Project to respond to the work Still by Andy Broadey, a photographic series documenting the abandoned and now derelict party headquarters of the Bulgarian Communist Party in use from 1981-1989.
Now is then forever is a sculptural intervention that engages directly with the Hanover Project space (located in the foyer of University of Central Lancashire Hanover Building). This designated area for exhibitions links a renovated 1930’s factory with a recent purpose built extension.
Now is then forever comprises of images, made in MDF and copper, of shattered broken windows that overlay the internal glazing of Hanover Projects transitional space that functions as a buffer zone between the buildings interior and the outside world. Partially obscuring the view into and out of the secure studios and offices, Now is then forever presents an imagined vision of the past and possible future of the space, and alludes to the temporalality recorded in Still, Andy Broadey’s photographic series taken from inside the Buzludzha Monument that runs along the facing wall of the exhibition.
The 1980’s saw the rise and fall into ruin of the Bulgarian Communist Party Monument; a giant futuristic saucer shaped building perched on top of a mountain. Western governments during this period adopted a policy of “norm setting” within urban environments removing visible traces of vandalism, social unrest or the obsolete from the inner city landscape. Now is then forever acts as a prompt to question the stability of this continuing era of urban renewal.
Frances Richardson 2015
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