Safe Keeping is a photographic installation created by Jemima Yong and Peter Reed. The duo have created an immersive installation which is concerned with telling the personal stories of Jemima's subjects - their relationships to her and the world around them. Dozens of identical cardboard boxes contain carefully selected collections of prints which offer clues and fragments of feelings and stories held together by time, place and circumstance. Each box also contains a tape player with a special recording made by the artists/subjects in response to the images in the box.
Audience members can engage with the piece on an explorative level - hunting through the boxes of half-remembered memories; finding their own meanings and stories. There is also space to observe other narratives played out in collages which make vast mosaics of images on the walls around them.
Safe Keeping breaks down the rules of the gallery space and the way in which audiences interact with photographs. It encourages a childlike curiosity and a leap into the imagination through a gesture of generosity and storytelling.
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