Where to buy...The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery Annabel Elgar

Where to buy...The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery Annabel Elgar

Where to buy...The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery Annabel Elgar
at the Wapping Project Bankside




Annabel Elgar s work has been widely
exhibited in Europe and America since
she left the Royal College of Art in
2001. The photographs themselves are
a good deal more original and
arresting than might be suggested by
the somewhat hackneyed themes of
"outsiderdom, social recoil and
contemporary alienation" they are
said to explore. The most striking of
them are staged, like dramatic
tableaux, and beautifully composed -
with a dynamic balance between detail
and overall structure, surface and
depth. Elgar uses rows of everyday
objects - such as stacking chairs,




glasses with paper napkins, balloons,
loaves of bread - co create strong
rhythmic and decorative effects that
please and reassure the eye and lead it
deep into space. But there's plenty of
room for the imagination to add
narrative and drama to the strange,
surreal ingredients that Elgar provides.
Prices: £l,500-£3,150.
65a Hopton Street, London SE1
(020-7981 9851). Until 22 May.