Mary Anne Francis This is Not an Art Show: On Mixed Forms of Visual Culture
29 January – 11 March 2022 By appointment Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce a show of new work by Mary Anne Francis. More visual essay than artwork, this exhibition builds on her recently published book, Mixed Forms of Visual Culture: From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity (Bloomsbury 2021), with a wall-based text that finds hybrid forms in all kind of cultural spaces: from carnivals to cyborgs, gadgetry to gastronomy and agitprop to architecture. It asks us to review our thoughts about the hodgepodge when presented with the latter’s eclectic history. Inevitably, perhaps, when this project is materialised as a sprawl of A4 printouts and old postcards, Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas is never far away. But here is an Atlas – in its early stages – for the Anthropocene, which, in prospecting the creative principle of synthesis, regards that as productive and problematic. Likewise, if Atlas invokes […]