V4: Repository is an expansive installation that reconfigures photographic works intended for exhibition alongside the props, equipment, tests, contact strips, raw files and digital traces that led up to the final work being produced. From a mis-addressed print of a Michelin advert accidentally sent by a commercial printer to email and WhatsApp exchanges to secure the delivery of a shipping container, the archive attempts to map the territory of the project in its broadest possible sense. Through doing so, it questions how archives are contained and exposes the flaws in the ongoing move from the physical archive to digital repositories of data. As Stills Centre for Photography enters its 50th anniversary year and looks towards its own archive, this exhibition asks particularly pertinent questions about the preservation and storage of photographic works under cloud capitalism.

V4: Repository is the final chapter of Felicity Hammond’s four-part evolving installation, Variations, exploring the relationship between geological mining and data mining, image-making and machine learning.

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