Phoebe Kiely – They Were My Landscape MER.Paper Kunsthalle uncertain what to do

uncertain what to do

or bring to mind the documentary images of guns confiscated and destroyed by law enforcement authorities

interwoven with a series of short texts by Mike Slack

The project unfolded over three years and involved more than 850 members of the Melbourne arts community

Around forty unpublished images and several previous iconic ones of everyday scenes convey a concentrate of Parisian atmosphere

Phoebe Kiely – They Were My Landscape MER.Paper Kunsthalle uncertain what to doThey were my landscape by Phoebe Kiely builds a fragmented picture of a place that is at once personal and anonymous. Based in Manchester, Kiely compulsively catalogues her urban and suburban surroundings, drawing attention to prosaic spectacles and passers by. In her book, the cracked concrete of vernacular architecture, or the flattened feathers of a pigeon lying on a road are granted the same scrutiny as a young man smoking at a bus stop, or a