'Silent Memory' by Daniel Clements
Café 88, London

Following on from the success of ‘Silent Memory’ at The Coningsby Gallery, London, October 2006, a new and revised body of work is to be shown.

‘Silent Memory’ is a lyrical photographic travelogue founded in the frameworks of architecture and fine art in both Eastern Europe and Russia.

This is the award winning* contemporary photographer Daniel Clements' second solo show in the capital. Graduating from Falmouth College of Art in 2000 he now divides his time between commissions in London and working on personal
socio-economic documentations of environments. Daniel’s visual sensibility turns even the most mundane of urban degradation into a seductive and fascinating image, questioning past and present political agendas. 

The exhibition is an investigation into the architectural transition from a devastated post-World War ll environment, through communism to the capitalist manifestations of the present. He has amalgamated 5 voyages to form this diverse and stimulating show consisting of large-scale, lightjet, archival prints.

Transported onto a multi-staged voyage from Berlin via Poland to Moscow, one experiences the subtle and sublime elements of a sinister history. An intimate exploration of these complex countries is represented through symbolic locations, from extraordinary ex-Communist Russian developments through to modern architectural structures confronting Germany’s contemporary history.
A clinical visual aesthetic predominates, infusing the work with a chilling sense of modern isolation.

Exhibition opens Monday 2nd July 2007 – Sunday 19th August 2007, 8am – 8pm daily, free entry.

Private view 7.00pm – 9.00pm Thursday 5th July 2007.

Café 88, 88 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 3RB.

www.daniel-clements.com, info@daniel-clements

+44(0)79 9075 7713

* Fuji Film Distinction, 2004. Travel Photographer of The Year short-listed, 2003 & 2004, Olympia, London. AOP, Kodak Student Awards, Advertising Category Winner 2000, Editorial runner up 1999.