Carter Presents

Derek Ogbourne

There is something fundamentally disturbing in the outpouring of the mind of Derek Ogbourne and for this exhibition the artist sets up scenarios of discomfiture by assimilating elements of the surreal, the structuralist and the plain mad to engage with a world that is all of these things and more.

Embedded in Ogbourne's art is the sadness of mortality and the precariousness, inconsequentiality and fallibility of our existence and as such the artist operates with and explores pervasive fears within and which constantly shadow our lives.
Derek Ogbourne has recently had a solo show at Brigitte Schenk Gallery Koln "The Museum of Optography". He has exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe and the East since completing his MA at the Slade School of Fine art in 1989. Notably The Sharjah Biennal 2003, Cell projects London. This is his first solo exhibition at Carter presents.

The Shutter of Death - Derek Ogbourne

The Shutter of Death Museum of Optography This part art book, part anthology gathers together a collection of essays by some of the only writers on the subject of optography, the process of obtaining the last thing you see before you die, an image laid bare and preserved on your retina. This process, forever shrouded in myth was in the late 1880s heavily speculated upon. A condemned young man, two scientists, Jack the Ripper, Salvador Dali and the only known Human Optogram.