Wendy's World

13 February - 25 April 2010

Te Deum to the Wrath of God © Etienne Clément (click image for larger version)

When it comes to creative play there are two types of children. Those who build structures (be they complex towers in their minds or structures with Meccano) and those who build stories. Etienne Clément's intensely alluring yet deviously complex photographic works ingeniously weave these two types together.

In the background of the works there is often a building, a landscape or a ruin, which acts as a stage backdrop, whilst in the foreground toy figures create false-modelled landscapes. Wendy is also ever-present, a blonde, blue bowed blurry figure - the viewer, the artist? Wendy draws our attention to the surface of the photograph, to our own position, and to questions surrounding the image.

A respected and critically acclaimed photographer, Clément has exhibited widely and has works in many public collections. Born in Paris, he now lives and works in London.