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.