BARRY FALK | INCIDENTAL SPACES
‘Incidental Spaces’ refers to urban places tucked away and overlooked: edges of car parks, loading bays, parking bays, abandoned spaces, pissed in corners. These are the overlooked details of a city; architectural features which appear to serve no function. Yet when photographed in a certain light and from a particular angle these ‘Incidental Spaces’ become resonant with association. They can also be read as metaphors of loss and as such are suffused with a disturbed sense of self. They refer to Freud’s concept of the unheimliche: the unhomely or uncanny = the familiar which has become alienated through the process of repression. This series of photographs seeks to turn the mundane into the intriguing and the quotidian into images of high psychic value.