Lisa and John

About The Exhibition

Lisa and John tells the story of two subjects from David Moore's 1980's series 'Pictures From the Real World', documenting working class communities in the photographers home-town of Derby. This exhibition re-presents the project in a new form, through an immersive installation of photographs, research material, 3D maquettes, audio-visual works and a public theatre performance entitled 'The Lisa and John Slideshow' at the MAC Theatre on Thursday 10th May.

Collaborating with Lisa and John, Moore's 'archive intervention' invites the original subjects to interact with the photographs taken in their family home between 1987 and 1988, making their own selections and discussing memories, family, and being photographed.

The Lisa and John Slideshow

‘The Lisa and John Slideshow’ tells the story of a now divorced couple interacting with an archive of photographs taken by David Moore, documenting their family between 1987 and 1988. Accompanying the exhibition entitled ‘Lisa and John’, this deeply moving and powerful performance sheds light upon the ways in which photographs and in particular family archives both hold and question the nature of memories, stories and emotions. Using actors to perform, the verbatim script has been created using transcripts of conversations with Lisa and John as they select and speak about their own selection of images from Moore’s archive.

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