Ben Haywood, Visions from the black hole of Centre Ville:​ Domestic Zone

photographic series, 2016

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Co-produced by diep~haven and the Minister for Culture and Communication, Normandy Regional Directorate of Culture, as a public commission

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Domestic Zone was realised on the housing estates of the Seahaven area. The works nod to the tableaux and genre art traditions. Made in collaboration with local residents, giving special mention to members of Meeching Amateur Dramatics society, the partially-staged images play out scenes from everyday life. Whilst doing so, they reference current and future affairs. Centre-Ville is the future model town, people inhabit the Domestic Zone, fulfill their desires in the Consumer Zone and de-stress and rebalance in the Leisure and the Solace Zones. Peering past the humour and sadness of the works, a conversation about both how we live our lives and how our domestic habitats might be shaping our futures begins to appear.

 

Ben Haywood received his BA in Photography from the London College of Communication in 2014. His practice deals with English life and with the contemporary moment. As an artist he has a strong love for the banal and the popular. His work has been shown in the UK and internationally, and is included in the Art collection of the French State.

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