CONSTRUCT - Anthony Luvera
Festival Exhibition
Location: @20, (20 station Road, LL29 8BU)
Open: 7th October - 31st October.
CONSTRUCT is a new body of work created between 2018 and 2022 in collaboration with people who have experienced homelessness in Birmingham.
Over four years, Anthony Luvera has been embedded within the support services of SIFA Fireside, Birmingham’s main day centre for homeless and vulnerably housed adults. He began by working in the kitchen, preparing and serving meals, before inviting participants to explore photography through regular meetings and workshops. Over 50 people took part, using disposable cameras to document their experiences and camera phones to share images. Throughout the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, Luvera continued working with participants by online platforms, post, telephone, and email.
CONSTRUCT was commissioned by GRAIN Projects and delivered in collaboration with SIFA Fireside. It extends Anthony’s ongoing work made with people experiencing homelessness in towns and cities across the United Kingdom over the past twenty years.
Assisted Self-Portrait of Mauvette Reynolds from Construct (2018 – 2022) by Anthony Luvera
Participants were also invited to make a self-portrait for the artist’s ongoing series, Assisted Self-Portraits. To create an Assisted Self-Portraits, Luvera meets each participant in locations that are important to them, to teach the individual how to use digital medium format camera equipment with a tripod, handheld flash, cable shutter release, and laptop. The final portrait is selected by the participant.
Documentation of the making of Assisted Self-Portrait of Sahai Dejonge from Construct (2018 – 2022) by Anthony Luvera
All festival exhibitions are FREE to visit.