'The Way We Live' at LAMB Arts in London

Opening today, “The Way We Live” features a selection of images by photographer and LomoAmigo Kate Bellm and site-specific work by artist Edgar Lopez Arrelano. Please note that one of the images in this post is NSFW.

It was in 2011 when Kate Bellm, originally from London, United Kingdom, and Edgar Lopez Arrelano, from Guadalajara, Mexico, first met while on residency in Tulum, Mexico. Shortly after, the two began a collaboration that would last up until the present, heading to far-flung places such as Japan, Utah, New Zealand, Mallorca, and India for their artistic pursuits. Additionally, they have participated in the 1st Kochi Biennale; since then, it has become sort of a ritual for them to leave site-specific works or painted murals on every place they’ve been to. Photographs of these works have been taken, of course, and these also add up to Bellm’s archive from this period.

“The Way We Live,” which opens today, May 14, in London’s LAMB Arts, has been described by both Bellm and Arrelano as a “tribute” to their lives on the road for the last four years.

Bellm’s work “explores the characters and the locations of [her] journeys across the globe” and “reflects the expression of youth, freedom, being open to the natural and the raw idea of living.” Working both in analog and digital formats, Bellm captures “spontaneous moments in time, friends, real life encounters, and honest documentation of the vibrant and youthful presentation of the way she lives.” Also on view are her dreamy and surreal landscape images, experimental work created through manipulations of the film, as well as some of her lomographs (read: “Put your 3D Glasses on for a Walk on the Moon with Kate Bellm!”).

On the other hand, Arrelano’s site-specific work is made of recycled materials sourced from all over the world. He was the inaugural resident artist at the Billingbear residency in the UK, and during this time Arrelano was said to have been “heavily influenced by nature, abandoned spaces, and vibrant landscapes.” And although his site-specific work is located across the pond, it still “holds a strong sense of his Mexican roots and [his] relation to artefacts, objects, and treasures that he refers to as his looking glasses into ‘the way he lives.’”

“The Way We Live” runs until June 25, 2015. For more information, please visit this page on the LAMB Arts website.

LAMB Arts
10 White Horse Street, London W1J 7LJ
info@lamb-arts.com

Information in this article were provided to Lomography by Kate Bellm.

written by Julien Matabuena on 2015-05-14 #news #exhibit #london #kate-bellm #united-kingom #edgar-lopez-arrelano #the-way-we-live #lamb-arts