22/11/2025
In Plain Sight spotlight:
As we move closer to the opening of our upcoming show - In Plain Sight: Photography, Power and Public Space in Britain - we are pleased to highlight the artists included in the exhibition.
We kick off our spotlight with represented Artist and her seminal series Country Life (1984), offering a satirical portrayal of Britain’s social hierarchies at the height of Thatcherism.
Created in domestic interiors and manicured
gardens across London, Scotland, and Oxfordshire, the series parodies the attitudes of the landed gentry through a refined interplay of text and image. By appropriating the still life and landscape genres, Knorr maps a terrain where nature and property intertwine,
revealing the persistence of privilege and the slow evolution of Britain’s class structures.
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Image: Karen Knorr, A mood of Highly Coloured Naturalism. From the series Country Life (1983–1985)
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At its core, In Plain Sight is both a reflection on Britain’s rich photographic landscape
and a testament to its profound contributions to social discourse with a particular focus
on the last twenty years.
Bringing together the work of eight lens-based artists, In Plain Sight opens a dialogue
with specific histories of the United Kingdom which continue to influence visual culture
today.
The photographs, video and sculptural works included from these UK-based
artists oscillate between fiction and document, while conceptually grounded in the
experience and existential analysis of contemporary culture in Britain, where it
originated and from where it ventures abroad.
