Gemma Pepper: The Quiet Locus

The exhibition features vernacular photographs by Gemma Pepper that explore displacement by being subjected to environmental processes like erosion and submersion.

The series, The Quiet Locus, treats displacement not as a single event but as a condition unfolding within the image itself. Pepper uses vernacular photographs, removing them from their original contexts and placing them in unstable environments. Through processes of absorption and erosion, the images become permeable, allowing time and chance to reconfigure memory and resist stable interpretation.