POWER AND PLEASURE

5 Nov 2013-5 Jan 2014

Overview

The exhibition ‘Power and Pleasure’ brings together photographic works that explore forms of social power, exerting their own pleasure through performance and observation. Power takes many forms just as pleasure does. Pleasure in looking and pleasure in power are two relevant contemporary questions for photography. This exhibition links the two as a question through the work of five alumni from the renowned MA Photographic Studies course at the University of Westminster, exploring the relation between pleasure and power. Can one undermine the other or increase its effectiveness? What is the nature of their intersection and how can photographic work intervene in these issues?