ne’er such a thing — a photographic correspondence between artists Rada Nastai and Freya Brooke Verona Copeland — grew from a shared sense of displacement and loss. In their search for recovery, the artists pieced together surviving fragments from these experiences, stitching them into an imagined whole.
An expansion of their photography artbook of the same name — first issued in a limited run of 50 copies, followed by a second edition of 100 — the exhibition frees the work from the book’s physical confines. Using techniques from the publication, the artists construct immersive photo-installations from anthotypes, dyed cotton, risography, and photographic grids, extending the sensations of loss, confusion, and their slow transformation into clarity and self-realization.