Morgan Quaintance I'll Always Remember…

Morgan Quaintance’s practice is responsive to contemporary experience and largely eschews the rehearsal of set themes. However, interests in the human condition, the cultic milieu, counterculture, ethnography, the built environment, Afro-Caribbean, African American, East Asian, and British histories are all mainstays.

Using the practical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as an interpretative frame, Quaintance’s exhibition will present an interrelated body of new moving image, photographic and textbased work. I’ll Always Remember… extends from a new moving image work, titled Bourdieu, in which the sociologist’s analytical tools are used as prompts guiding a biographical retelling of the artist’s childhood experience living between London and Chicago. Pulling together image and material references including documentation of Chicago housing project the Robert Taylor Homes, South London social housing, Bourdieu’s fieldwork and photography in Algeria, J.G. Ballard’s ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’, and vernacular biography, Quaintance aims to craft and display a novel visual repertoire that is as affective and compelling as it is semiotically rich and textually incisive.

Morgan Quaintance’s work has been shown at MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam. He is the recipient of a number of awards for his work; most recently the 2025 Film London Jarman Award.

Alice Butler is co-director and co-founder of aemi. She is a film programmer, curator, lecturer, and writer. She has curated exhibitions and film seasons at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon; IFI, Dublin; and Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.