Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures

Photographer Zed Nelson's latest series, Love Me, is a heated take on the pursuit of beauty, building a convincing picture of oppression and identity made of material amassed over five years of travelling. Showing at the Ffotogallery, Penarth, to 9 Oct Photograph: Zed Nelson

Ernst Caramelle turns the cavernous, glass-fronted construction of Bloomberg Space's gallery into a puzzle box of shifting surfaces, his simple geometric arrangements telescoping into space-changing illusions. From 2 to 25 Sep Photograph: PR

Feral Trade Cafe, by Kate Rich, allows the artist to blend the worlds of art and commerce via friends and peers, who contribute food from their global travels to be sold within a gallery space. At Manchester Castlefield gallery, to 10 Oct Photograph: PR

Derry artist Locky Morris deals in what he calls the 'daily epiphanies' of chewed pencils, cups of tea, lager bottles and antacid tablets. This exhibition celebrates three decades of such thematically unlikely and highly personal artistic projects. Belfast Golden Thread gallery, to 18 Sep Photograph: PR

The work of Rotterdam-born painter Marcelle Hanselaar continues Northumbria University gallery's programme of contemporary European expressionism, revealing his personalised mythology of spooky animals and vulnerable women. To 1 Oct Photograph: PR

Nigel Grimmer pokes fun at the clichés of family photographs in a series of deadpan portraits that, though apparently unashamed in their silliness, are often quite affecting. Hull Artlink, to 20 Sep Photograph: PR

Chris Eubank (1992), by Sally Soames. Moving on from its showing in the Guardian News and Media gallery at Kings Place, Soames's exhibition is a demonstration of newspaper portraiture at its most considered and composed. Northumbria University Gallery, to 1 Oct Photograph: PR

The Principle of Moments, by Darren Almond. Almond's work is epic in the fullest sense. In the past decade his study of history's ominous echoes has led to haunting films and photographic projects in some of the world's bleakest locations. White Cube, Mason's Yard, London, 3 Sep to 2 Oct. Photograph: PR