Nicholas Constant

I’m an internationally raised, London-based artist working with photography to discuss post-atrocity memory. I build on research in complex histories to reveal injustices that restrict peace building and healing. Rather than expecting my work to reveal a truth about the past, I see it as a facilitator – presenting suspicions that can open up new conversations.

In my work, the viewer encounters an unintrusiveness that is a deliberate opposition to the raw emotions found in war photography. The absence of emotion and matter-of-factness is my invitation to hear the silences but also to engage personal knowledge and pre-conceptions. The emotion is extracted and guided by the images context, which evolves as time and information progress.

I look to the time passing between the event and the viewer’s experience to reveal ideologies and invisible systems surrounding the work. The images are as carefully constructed as the systematically erased human experience the depicted sites may have inhibited.