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A Catfish Sleeps

Exhibition produced as part of the 2009-10 Pavilion Commission Awards. Four artists Vaughan (UK) Yoneda (Japan), Camara (Brazil) and Klenz (Germany/UK). were commissioned to produce new bodies of photographic work which were exhibited at Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham in March 2010

This research is the second in a series of photographic works made at the edges of the Earth’s tectonic plates. A Catfish Sleeps emerged from a period of research that drew upon knowledge from other disciplines such as geology and

cultural geography. Following the study of geological and seismic rupture probability maps, the photographs were made at the

boundaries between four tectonic plates in the volcanically and seismically volatile landscape of Japan.

A Catfish Sleeps was the result of a Pavilion Commission Award in 2009-10 to produce a new series of photographs in Japan. Awards were given to four international artists and the resulting work was exhibited at Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham in March 2010. The exhibition was accompanied by a public presentation by the featured artists at the Djanogly Gallery and an artist talk at Nottingham University. Continuing the interdisciplinary nature of the previous series (Ultima Thule), A Catfish Sleeps extended Vaughan’s visual exploration of geological processes at the edges of the Earth’s tectonic plates. In response to geological, tectonic and seismic rupture probability maps – and an understanding of seismic histories of the region – the series used photography to study human responses to the underlying geology, as evidenced at strategically selected landscapes and architectural sites in Japan. Examples included documentation of the ‘E-Defense’ earthquake simulation facilities at the National Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Kobe.