The pensive image of What’s Left Behind? is an ongoing project which invites us to contemplate one of life’s biggest questions: What’s Left Behind? The interiors depicted belong to houses that have been put on the market following the death of the owner and considered photographs of the objects that remain encourage reflection upon ideas of the home, family and ownership
Chapter will be showing the first solo exhibition of works by the photographer Andrew Morris.
Swansea born, Morris was the winner of last year’s (2013) Wales International Young Artist Award.
The interiors depicted in Morris’ photographs appear calm and contemplative, in a transitory place — somewhere between occupied and vacant. Reading glasses still perched on the windowsill and bedrooms with beds that seem to have been freshly made — you could easily be mistaken in believing the owner has just popped out.
But look a little closer and you’ll find something isn’t quite right. Wallpaper peeling from the walls, a single photograph on an otherwise empty bookshelf; these are homes in the process of being cleared out, homes that once belonged to someone who has passed away.
Morris sensitively captures these scenes which are about more than the remaining possessions, and leads us to consider and reflect upon the ideas of home, family and ownership.
Art in the Bar
Andrew Morris: What’s Left Behind
Fri 14 March – Sun 18 May
Visit www.chapter.org for more information
Chapter
Market Road
Canton
Cardiff
029 2030 4400
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