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Oliver Frank Chanarin | Commission

A Perfect Sentence explores the shifting terrain of documentary photography: our drive for attention, the complexity of being seen and our anxiety of being overlooked. The new installation combines analogue photography with state-of-the-art automated machines to explore photography in the age of the algorithm. Commissioned and produced by Forma with eight partners, A Perfect Sentence is Oliver Frank Chanarin’s first UK solo project and will see multiple presentations across the country, public acquisitions, a digital platform and a publication.

Chris Rawcliffe, Artistic Director, Forma says:

A Perfect Sentence is by far Forma’s most monumental artist collaboration in our 20 years of commissioning and producing artist works. Oliver Frank Chanarin’s ambition on this epic endeavour was matched by the generosity of hundreds of participants from across the UK as well as the enthusiasm and crucial support from a network of museums and galleries, trusting funding bodies and over fifty local charities, organisations and leaders. The result is a project full of life and candour which will keep reinventing itself as it tours the UK.

Chanarin’s new commission is presented across a series of iterative exhibitions, presented in its entirety for the first time earlier this year at KARST, Plymouth. For more information on the history of A Perfect Sentence, the project's two-year nationwide production and upcoming presentations, read more below.


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A Perfect
Sentence

Touring

A programme of exhibitions and presentations will take place across the UK over the next two years.

Current
2 November 2024 - 23 February 2025

Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Lichfield St, Wolverhampton
WV1 1DU

Opening times:
Monday - Saturday: 10:30 - 16:30
Sunday: 11:00 - 16:00


Recent

7 - 29 September 2024
Images Vevey Biennial of Visual Arts
Fondation Vevey ville d’images
Vevey, Switzerland

25 January - 23 March 2024
KARST
22 George Place, Stonehouse
Plymouth PL1 3NY


Press

Oliver Frank Chanarin’s Delicate Portrait of Post-Brexit Britain (AnOther, 28 June 2023)

Feeling seen: identity in modern Britain – in pictures(The Guardian, 27 June 2023)

Photographing Britain, from fetish clubs to church hall amateur dramatics (I-D Magazine, 27 June 2023)

Read more

A Perfect Sentence explores the shifting terrain of documentary photography: our drive for attention, the complexity of being seen and our anxiety of being overlooked. The new installation combines analogue photography with state-of-the-art automated machines to explore photography in the age of the algorithm. Commissioned and produced by Forma with eight partners, A Perfect Sentence is Oliver Frank Chanarin’s first UK solo project and will see multiple presentations across the country, public acquisitions, a digital platform and a publication.

Chris Rawcliffe, Artistic Director, Forma says:

A Perfect Sentence is by far Forma’s most monumental artist collaboration in our 20 years of commissioning and producing artist works. Oliver Frank Chanarin’s ambition on this epic endeavour was matched by the generosity of hundreds of participants from across the UK as well as the enthusiasm and crucial support from a network of museums and galleries, trusting funding bodies and over fifty local charities, organisations and leaders. The result is a project full of life and candour which will keep reinventing itself as it tours the UK.

Chanarin’s new commission is presented across a series of iterative exhibitions, presented in its entirety for the first time earlier this year at KARST, Plymouth. For more information on the history of A Perfect Sentence, the project's two-year nationwide production and upcoming presentations, read more below.

Commissioned and produced by

A Perfect Sentence was commissioned and produced by Forma in partnership with 8 institutions across the UK: Artes Mundi, Cardiff; KARST, Plymouth; Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London Corporation; Norfolk Museums Service (Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, and Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth); originalprojects;, Great Yarmouth; QUAD, FORMAT International Photography festival and Derby Museums, Derby; and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton. Commissioned in association with Images Vevey and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.

The production is supported by A Perfect Sentence’s co-commission and co-production partners, and has been made possible through generous funding from Arts Council England and Outset Contemporary Art Fund. 72 photographs will be gifted to six national collections, thanks to an Acquisition Commission grant from Art Fund. In addition, National Lottery through Arts Council Wales, Kick The Dust and City of London have supported the productions in Wales, Great Yarmouth and London respectively.


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Co-commissioning and co-production partners

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Oliver Frank Chanarin, untitled, 10 x 8 inches, C-type print, unique artist proof, 2023. Courtesy and © the artist. Commissioned and produced by Forma, in collaboration with eight UK organisations. Supported by Arts Council England, Art Fund and Outset Contemporary Art Fund.

Touring

A programme of exhibitions and presentations will take place across the UK over the next two years.

Current
2 November 2024 - 23 February 2025

Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Lichfield St, Wolverhampton
WV1 1DU

Opening times:
Monday - Saturday: 10:30 - 16:30
Sunday: 11:00 - 16:00


Recent

7 - 29 September 2024
Images Vevey Biennial of Visual Arts
Fondation Vevey ville d’images
Vevey, Switzerland

25 January - 23 March 2024
KARST
22 George Place, Stonehouse
Plymouth PL1 3NY


Press

Oliver Frank Chanarin’s Delicate Portrait of Post-Brexit Britain (AnOther, 28 June 2023)

Feeling seen: identity in modern Britain – in pictures(The Guardian, 27 June 2023)

Photographing Britain, from fetish clubs to church hall amateur dramatics (I-D Magazine, 27 June 2023)

Read more