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Alzheimer’s: A Quiet Story - A photographic series and solo exhibition

This series of 20 artworks was developed by Plouviez in response to experiencing a close relative with early stage Alzheimer’s Disease. The work considers how we can look at and represent the experience of Alzheimer’s Disease as it begins to cause interruption to routines and challenge what someone knows. This work provides a different approach to creating a photographic visualisation of Alzheimer’s Disease, without repeating the imagery we often see of ‘confused individuals’ and ‘victims’.

Using photography and text, the work interprets domestic spaces through focus on detail, through the implication of individual people and through peering into private spaces. The worn surfaces reference longevity, repetition and perhaps at times the reaching the end of the objects life and usefulness. The text is juxtaposed with the images to confuse and interrupt the viewer in their interpretation of the image.

One work from the series was shown as a billboard in CIVIC, the first international festival of billboard art, Sunderland UK (November 2011), and as part of the Action Field Kodra photography festival in Thessaloniki, Greece (October 2012).

The full series of work is exhibited in Thessaloniki, Greece (22 November 2013-17 January 2014) as part of PhotoBiennale, an international photography festival organized by the Museum of Photography, and at Panna Foto Studio, Jakarta, Indonesia (23 November-14 December 2013).