Impending Doom and the Memory We're Becoming

Sebastian Rodriguez de Castro brings Impending Doom and the Memory We're Becoming to Art Space on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October, as part of this year's Photo Fringe Festival. It's a weekend-only show, so you'll have to catch it then.

Rodriguez de Castro is a Colombian artist working with a personal and family archive he's built himself. He doesn't just hang the photos as they are; he takes them back into the darkroom and puts them through partial development, fragmentation and analogue collage, letting the chemical and material processes introduce a bit of unpredictability. He returns to existing images, transforms them and creates new ones that change his relationship to the original, and in doing so he questions the whole idea of the 'Decisive Moment'.

The exhibition treats 'impending doom' as something built into the act of taking a photograph: every picture preserves a present moment while becoming an image of something that will eventually disappear, turning photography into a medium of absence, anticipation and loss. It's an ongoing project that responds to this year's Photo Fringe theme, 'feedback loops'.

What you'll see on the walls are experimental analogue photographs and collages, alongside a 16mm film projection and an essay in the form of a printed book. Rodriguez de Castro lives in Bogotá and has exhibited in the UK before, at Fringe Arts Bath, the Frome Photography Festival and the Signature Art Prize. He's mentioned he'd like to move to the UK in the future and chose Portsmouth because he finds the artistic landscape here 'really alive' and the city has a lot of history.

Art Space is at 27 Brougham Rd, Southsea, PO5 4PA. The exhibition is open Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October, 10:00 to 16:00, and it's free to enter.