In partnership with 48 Hours Neukölln Festival
Opening 7pm, Friday 26th of June 2009, at Werkstadt e.V, Emser Str. 124, Berlin, Germany.
Attachments is a series of montages made with materials collected and images take from different locations; Eastern Germany, Iceland, Kaliningrad, and Helsinki. The work originated in photographic documentation of structures in Berlin which were unrenovated, derelict or otherwise under construction. There is an attraction in the imperfections of these locations: in the multitude of uneven surfaces and textures, in the cumulative effects of neglect, and in the implications of memory and nostalgia in the traces left behind. Hughes is intrigued by the potential of strategies of re-use and reinvention, and the process of completing the work in this series involved repurposing scrap wallpaper, plaster boards and other remnants discarded in the interiors of the structures as material for use in the work.
