Peripheral Vision

Peripheral Vision brings together four international female artists whose photographs could not have been made from a distance. They are built on duration: on returning, staying, and earning the kind of proximity that changes what becomes visible.

The four photographers here share a commitment to sustained presence. Their work accumulates through negotiation, care, friction, and closeness, and what becomes visible carries the weight of that.

Maria Meco's photographs come from spending time in places where humans and other species are genuinely dependent on each other, attending to the textures of that entanglement. Gabrielė Žukauskaitė photographs from within lived processes of migration and (re)settlement, dwelling on thresholds between arrival and familiarity, presence and distance. Polly Hardwicke's images emerge from extended relational closeness, formed through consent, exposure, and mutual endurance. Viviana Almas returns to gestures, symbols, and materials until images accumulate weight: what appears staged is enacted; what feels symbolic has been lived.

In each case, photography functions less as capture and more as consequence.