Permanent Gallery, 20 Bedford Place, Brighton, UK
Saturday 22nd September – Sunday 28th October 2007
Open Thurs/Fri/Sun 1pm – 6pm Sat 11am – 6pm

What maybe standard fare for FT readers has now taken on a decidedly different twist in the world of art, with a new photographic exhibition in Brighton of photographs dealing with the supernatural, paranormal and occult.

The exhibition takes its title from an 1869 essay by the French spiritualist Camille Flammarion concerning the use of the emerging new technology of photography to scientifically document the unseen worlds of psychics and paranormal phenomena. The objective camera eye was seen by spiritualists and psychical researchers at the time as a way to produce empirical proof of such phenomena, be it the presence of spirits, levitating objects or strange emanations.

The show – which runs for over a month from 22 September – is made up of collections from four different artists who investigate well-documented fortean subject areas with different stylistic approaches that mimic the methodology of the original researchers.

Victoria Emes has manufactured laboratory-style conditions in her ‘Illustrations of Hypnosis’.