Tales from the Loop V2 - Bloom Exhibition, MMU

Presented at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Bloom exhibition, Tales from the Loop brings together photography, painting, and writing in a collaborative exploration of one fixed urban route. Working with writer Sarah Neder and painter Rob Jones, the project examines how repetition and return can transform the familiar into something speculative — a shared landscape of memory, observation, and quiet unease.

The installation featured a 50x50-inch brushed aluminium print, vinyl wall text of Neder’s poem, and oil paintings on folded paper maps of Manchester by Jones. Each medium reinterpreted the same walk through its own language, creating an immersive dialogue between image, word, and surface.


Tales From the Loop by Sarah Neder

How can you know a place

Without knowing

Every

Piece of barbed wire

Sticker

Bin

Memos on the wall

Say do not forget

The poor

The weak

Who the real criminals are

It's all in the mind

Maybe I have not walked this loop enough

Maybe I have not walked it

At all

Maybe I keep replaying a memory

Like a tape

Deaf as concrete

Yet so noisy to the eyes.


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