{"id":2,"date":"2007-05-12T10:07:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T09:07:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-10-18T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:02:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/archive\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Suit Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project was centred upon the farming community in West Wales. Peter was interested in exploring the current social and cultural landscape of farming through a socially engaged art project. He selected and work with five farmers representative of the type of agriculture within the Cardigan area. Asked the farmers to work in a formal business suit, with the aim of introducing a symbolic and surreal element to there encounter.The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsuit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 anchored the visual and conceptual nature of the project. The suit has its own communicative phenomena, containing a self-perpetuating symbolic and evocative force. The aim was not to make any explicit political statements but construct a body of work consisting of photographic images and altered suits that created a space for wonder and discourse about economic systems, power, and identity located within a rural context.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cywaithcymru.org.uk\" title=\"Cywaith Cymru - Artworks Wales\">Cywaith Cymru<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit_andy.jpg\" alt=\"suit project\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/andyphotos.jpg\" title=\"andy photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/andyphotos.jpg\" alt=\"andy photo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/iansuit.jpg\" title=\"ian suit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/iansuit.jpg\" alt=\"ian suit\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/maryaphoto.jpg\" title=\"mary ann\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/maryaphoto.jpg\" alt=\"mary ann\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit01-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"suit 1\" title=\"suit 1\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit01-400x263.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit01-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit01-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit01.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit02-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"suit 2\" title=\"suit 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit02-400x263.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit02-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit02-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/suit02.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project was centred upon the farming community in West Wales. Peter was interested in exploring the current social and cultural landscape of farming through a socially engaged art project. He selected and work with five farmers representative of the type of agriculture within the Cardigan area. Asked the farmers to work in a formal<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/archive\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suit Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168,"parent":508,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/551"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbodenham.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}