David Spero #Photographe
David Spero studied photography at the Royal College of Art, London.
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The churches in this book reflect a wide and diverse range of denominations and sects that form what is often referred to as the ‘charismatic evangelical movement'. Materially and architecturally the buildings display an almost protestant ascetism quite in keeping with a spiritualist church movement reacting against secular material rationalism and consumerism. In these churches the holy spirit pervades, faith is instrinsic and god is personally experienced. They feature none of the monumental architecture or symbols of status and power of the historically dominant denominations. In these churches the architecture is contingent. The buildings were never designed to be churches and this random collection of architectural structures has come about as the result of numerous acts of faith. Often temporary, semi-permane...
The churches in this book demonstrate the diverse range of denominations and sects that form the Charismatic Evangelical movement today. Materially and architecturally, the buildings reflect a Spiritualist church movement reacting against secular Material Rationalism and consumerism. They feature none of the monumental architecture or symbols of status and power of the historically dominant denominations like Roman Catholicism. The buildings were never designed to be churches, and this random collection of architectural structures is the result of numerous acts of faith. Often temporary, semi-permanent or unconsecrated, they are sometimes anonymous and almost invisible. They are usually located where we would least expect to find them: in industrial estates, shopping malls, houses, garages, cinemas, above commercial prop...
David Spero will be in conversation with David Campany, artist, writer and reader in photography at the University of Westminster. Since the early 1990s, David Spero has worked on interconnected photography project. In his ongoing series Ball Photographs, begun in 2001, the artist introduces coloured balls into existing and transitory locations. He has gone on to work with further arrangements using wood and audio-tape to construct delicately balanced minimal structures that create imagined connections and disrupt our perception of the depicted scene.
This season of Contemporary Photography Artist Talks, focuses on the nature and use of objects within the representational space of the photographic image.
The conversation will happen on March the 10 at 6.00pm
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