by Helen Bendon and Jess Thom
April 23-29

Drawing upon research into city life, this exhibition celebrates the riches and the tensions of modern cities as places to work, entertain and live. 

The exhibition continues the work of video artist Helen Bendon and photographic artist Jessica Thom, working alongside three research teams: VivaCity2020, AUNT-SUE and InSITU. Their collaboration reveals a picture of modern cities complete with beauty, excitement and modernity, but also isolation, impotence and myth.

Helen uses video to explore the interweaving of narratives through urban landscapes whilst Jessica collects resident’s photographs and merges and manipulates them to create a portrait of two cities: Manchester and London.