Daisy stewart-darling


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AGORA: Photographic Voices
UAL MA Sound Arts and MA Photography |Group Show
Copeland Gallery | Peckham London | 2025


ECOnstruct
(2025)

Collaborative photography and sound installation exploring anthropocentric reconstructions of nature in relation to recording spatial memories.

This project explored themes of the collective memory construction of nature through different perspectives. 

Both photographers and sound artists found overlap in both mediums ‘capturing’ and framing of nature that is often anthropocentric and constructed through creative choice. 

Through multiple field trips to different graveyards (the most biodiverse places we could find in southeast London), we worked to explore and these spaces through our individual practice. We were influenced by the continuous cyclical nature of ecology, asking questions such as: when does a body become nature again? 

Both mediums highlighted the limitations of photos freezing still/ set moments of these experiences, whereas even though sound offers more temporality, we were still limited.

The result was to play with the idea of layers this material, to construct new visualisations and soundings of these spaces. 

We aimed to layer and suspend on tracing paper, different photos to create alternate/ memorialised images of these spaces. Layers of different sounds were put through a mini mixer on different channels, in which different layers of field recordings constructed a collective memorialised experience of the space through sound. This mirrored the layering of the images. 

Visitors were invited to turn up or down the faders to adjust the sonic scene, further activating the piece by imitating the experience we had as artists as curating and experiencing these environments differently. The suspended nature of the images invited the visitors to see different combinations/ perspectives/ possible image combinations as they view it from different angles. 

Overall, we seeked to playfully explore how photography/ sound engages with ecology and how it is preserved through the artforms, highlighting anthropocentric constructions of collective memory.