In this show the artists muse on the photographic practice and organic material: coal and silver.

‘Silver Before Photography’ is a hologram of English silverware manufactured before the invention of photography. The hologram presents the illusion of antique spoons and ladles, resting on a table.

Holography was possibly the last analogue photographic process to use silver salts. Here the twentieth-century medium provides a window onto silver objects from an age before photography.

For this exhibit the artists have selected a nineteenth-century stereo Daguerreotype from the Jonathan Ross collection of a family grouped around a table, to allude to the domestic objects, scenes and processes that continue over time. The artists employ different media ––holograms and daguerreotypes––to reflect on the past and the sentimental lure of objects as they fade into history.