V4: Repository by Felicity Hammond is an expansive installation that reconfigures photographic works intended for exhibition alongside the props, equipment, tests, contact strips, raw files and digital traces that led up to the final work being produced. V4: Repository questions how archives are contained, and exposes the flaws in the ongoing move from the physical archive to digital repositories of data.
V4: Repository is the final iteration of Variations, which started with V1: Content Aware, exhibited as a public realm installation as part of the Photoworks Weekender in Brighton, 2024, V2: Rigged, presented at QUAD, Derby as part of FORMAT25 International Photography Festival and V3: Model Collapse at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Variations is commissioned by Photoworks through the Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship, a unique biennial opportunity that supports a mid-career artist to create and exhibit a new body of work.
