Unstable/Sustainable is a re-invented exhibition. It was originally staged at Format Festival by the London Alternative Photography Collective in 2015. This earlier exhibition included a number of photographic works, which gradually changed chemically during the course of the exhibition.

For the 2021 edition of Unstable at Format Festival, all exhibited works will be produced using sustainable photographic processes. Within the LAPC’s Sustainable Darkroom research project, we have been working with a number of ephemeral photography processes which are notoriously difficult to fix.

Photography has a fixation with permanence, which doesn’t exist to the same degree within other art forms. Now that photography is becoming more of an interdisciplinary field, is it always necessary to stabilise our images? In this new era of biodegradable materials, is it not more sensible to create work that can be recycled?

Dates for Online Exhibition: March 12, 2021 to March 23, 2023
Dates for Physical Exhibition: May 17, 2021 to June 13, 2021
Venue: The Small Print Company, Friary Villas 2-3 Friary Street Derby, DE1 1JF

Artists:

Noemi Filetti
Chloe Obermeyer
Hannah Fletcher
Melanie King
Diego Valente
Nettie Edwards
Ryan Moule
Kim Conway