We were thrilled to have worked with Trish Morrissey, producing Lambda digital c-type prints for her exhibition, Autofictions – Twenty years of photography and film, at Bradford’s Impressions Gallery. Having previously been exhibited at Serlachius Museum Gustaf in Finland, this marks the first major UK survey of her work. The exhibition brings together photographs and films from over twenty years of the artist’s practice and will be the UK premiere of several bodies of work, including Morrissey’s new film Eupnea (2023).
Morrissey, based in the UK since 1990, became prominent in the early 2000s among a generation of female photographers working with staged photography, often putting themselves in the picture. Throughout her career, she has combined performance, photography and film to develop and play real and fictional characters, using herself and collaborating with others to explore historical and contemporary ideas about women, family and the body.
Because she appears in her photographs and films, sometimes performing all the roles herself, and chooses characters with whom she identifies, Morrissey’s work also contains an autobiographical element, creating a kind of ‘autofiction’ where experiences from her own life are explored through the stories of others.
Themes of motherhood and female inheritance run through the exhibition, with Morrissey collaborating with her mother, sister and daughter in several works. Broadly chronological, the exhibition is loosely structured around a narrative about female experience from youth to middle age, and beyond.
Morrisey’s new film Eupnea investigates the connection between breathing and life force, exploring the collective trauma of the pandemic, whilst also recalling the anguish of the parent who learns of the fragility of life.
Trish Morrissey: ‘Autofictions – Twenty years of photography and film‘
15th July 2023 to 14th October 2023
Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square,
Bradford,
BD1 1SD,
UK