Charlie Prodger's "Sophie with Sheets 3" consists of four monochromatic photographs depicting hands engaging with pages of photographic contact sheets. The images focus on geometric compositions and patterns created by the hands and paper. The work's minimalist, documentary style emphasizes intimacy and tactility, capturing stillness and movement in a subtle interplay. Prodger's exploration of identity, technology, and temporality is woven into the piece, which reflects her broader practice of examining personal and historical narratives through queer subjectivity, challenging linearity and permanence. ...
Charlie Prodger weaves moving images, printed imagery, sculpture, and writing into a richly layered practice that blurs boundaries between mediums and ideas. Her work traverses vast and varied histories—from the deep time of geology to the fleeting intimacy of anecdote and oral history—filtering them through the prism of queer subjectivity. Through this lens, she investigates the intricate entanglements between body, landscape, language, technology, and time. Prodger’s approach often holds a surface of warmth and harmony that subtly conceals more unsettling undercurrents, creating spaces where illusion and reality, living forms and still life, merge and conflict. Having worked with reproductive technologies for over thirty years, Prodger has navigated many discontinued formats, and the migration of data between them has become an intrinsic part of her formal language. She is fascinated by processes of conservation and preservation, where materials, time, permanence, and entropy exist in delicate equilibrium. Her work also seeks to counter linear history and its imperative of progress by producing a matrix of contingent, transhistorical queer relations. This autobiographical approach traces the accumulation of affinities, desires, and losses that form a self as it moves through time. Through this multifaceted practice, Prodger creates immersive works that invite viewers to consider how identity, memory, and experience are constructed, mediated, and preserved across temporal and material layers. ...
Founded in 2011, Kendall Koppe is a Glasgow-based gallery committed to championing under-represented voices in contemporary art, with a particular focus on queer and female artists. The gallery fosters a space where personal narratives intersect with broader cultural, historical, and social contexts, while also advocating for Scotland’s role in the international visual arts landscape.
