Gravity Begins at Home / Guy Bolongaro
‘Firstly, I try to stress the importance of home and the family: I feel they are terribly important.
And secondly, I try to stress the fact that the theory of gravity is a lot of nonsense.’
– Ivor Cutler, 1959
Guy Bolongaro (born Crewe, 1978) studied sociology before moving to London to become a social worker. Around 2014, burnt out by work and frustrated by his attempts at making documentary films in his spare time, he began taking photographs as a form of ‘daily art therapy,’ making images on his lunch breaks and walks home from work. A few years after the birth of his first child he shifted focus from the public sphere to the family cosmos, turning attention from his walking routes to his domestic routines.
Capturing the strange and vibrant moments within the daily maelstrom of childcare and child’s play, and in documenting the cyclical patterns of family life, Bolongaro began a process of working through his feelings of ambivalence about how we live within the idealised ‘family unit’, attempting to persuade himself that family – or at any rate, his own – can work.
Book
128pp paperback with slipcase comprised of:
4 x 32pp concertina books 170 240 mm
1 x sticker sheet
Screenprinted slipcase with stickers applied (each copy with a unique configuration)
112 photographs
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Edition of 750
ISBN 978–1–9993494–8–6
‘Firstly, I try to stress the importance of home and the family: I feel they are terribly important.
And secondly, I try to stress the fact that the theory of gravity is a lot of nonsense.’
– Ivor Cutler, 1959
Guy Bolongaro (born Crewe, 1978) studied sociology before moving to London to become a social worker. Around 2014, burnt out by work and frustrated by his attempts at making documentary films in his spare time, he began taking photographs as a form of ‘daily art therapy,’ making images on his lunch breaks and walks home from work. A few years after the birth of his first child he shifted focus from the public sphere to the family cosmos, turning attention from his walking routes to his domestic routines.
Capturing the strange and vibrant moments within the daily maelstrom of childcare and child’s play, and in documenting the cyclical patterns of family life, Bolongaro began a process of working through his feelings of ambivalence about how we live within the idealised ‘family unit’, attempting to persuade himself that family – or at any rate, his own – can work.
Book
128pp paperback with slipcase comprised of:
4 x 32pp concertina books 170 240 mm
1 x sticker sheet
Screenprinted slipcase with stickers applied (each copy with a unique configuration)
112 photographs
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Edition of 750
ISBN 978–1–9993494–8–6
‘Firstly, I try to stress the importance of home and the family: I feel they are terribly important.
And secondly, I try to stress the fact that the theory of gravity is a lot of nonsense.’
– Ivor Cutler, 1959
Guy Bolongaro (born Crewe, 1978) studied sociology before moving to London to become a social worker. Around 2014, burnt out by work and frustrated by his attempts at making documentary films in his spare time, he began taking photographs as a form of ‘daily art therapy,’ making images on his lunch breaks and walks home from work. A few years after the birth of his first child he shifted focus from the public sphere to the family cosmos, turning attention from his walking routes to his domestic routines.
Capturing the strange and vibrant moments within the daily maelstrom of childcare and child’s play, and in documenting the cyclical patterns of family life, Bolongaro began a process of working through his feelings of ambivalence about how we live within the idealised ‘family unit’, attempting to persuade himself that family – or at any rate, his own – can work.
Book
128pp paperback with slipcase comprised of:
4 x 32pp concertina books 170 240 mm
1 x sticker sheet
Screenprinted slipcase with stickers applied (each copy with a unique configuration)
112 photographs
Design by Ben Weaver Studio
Edition of 750
ISBN 978–1–9993494–8–6