Organised by nine emerging curators, Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday was developed in response to the 50th anniversary of the departure of the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages from the General Registry Office at Somerset House. Such an archive records the banner headlines, the life-beginning, life-changing and life-ending moments that mark human experience. But what would an archive look like that instead recorded the fine print: the quiet, everyday moments of transformation and connection that shape human lives?
Bringing together 24 major works from the Arts Council Collection and The Courtauld Gallery collection, spanning from the 17th century to the present day, Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday explores the enduring impulse to record, reflect and connect through everyday life: its small wonders and disappointments, its intimate joys and tragedies.
