Exhibitions
Felicity Hammond – Variations
7 November 2025 – 7 February 2026
Stills is delighted to present Variations a new body of work by Felicity Hammond, presented in four parts across four venues in the UK.
Variations is an evolving installation exploring the relationship between geological mining and data mining, and image-making and machine learning. Each installation will be photographically documented, and the resulting images used as a training set for the next exhibition; as in AI image-creation, the logic from past datasets will therefore be reiterated in new work.
Unveiled in Autumn 2024 at Dreamy Place in Brighton, the first iteration of this installation, V1: Content Aware, reflected on the global structures that support the digital economy. V2: Rigged, presented as part of FORMAT25 in Derby, brought together extractive processes that exploit humans and the land. V3: Model, Collapse exhibiting at The Photographers Gallery in London, considers how machine-produced data feeds back into its own system.
V4: Repository is the final iteration of Variations and will be on display at Stills. This will highlight the role of the data storage centre as a site of transmission and as an extractive and polluting process in its own right.
Variations is commissioned through the Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship, a unique biennial opportunity that supports a mid-career artist to create and exhibit a new body of work.
