The HENI project space is just to the right when you enter the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank. I’d only ever seen a security guard standing there and had no idea that it was a third (and free) space till I stepped inside.
I found The Blue Road, an exhibition of photographs by Samuel Laurence Cunnane.
Here are a few images taken with my camera, a selection of his work over the past ten years.
The photos give us luminous meditations of transient scenes, the quiet beauty of often overlooked places. They quite captivated me with their painterly quality transforming something prosaic into wonder. The ground of a building site above reminds me of Richard Long‘s work, both involving mud.
An underpass becomes heavenly… neighbouring buildings, one under a construction safety mesh, meld together.
There’s a deep pleasure to be found in looking and seeing.
My first glance was to see incense stumps from a Buddhist temple – more poetic than the reality but I enjoyed the way my mind was able to make associations from what is a very mundane thing.
