Catherine Yass
Sleep (Swamp), 2009
£360*
EDITION SIZE: 100 (certificate of authenticity signed and numbered)
FINISHING: 12 colour Giclée inkjet print using archival pigment ink on acid free lightfast Hahnemühle German fine art pearl, 285 gsm
DIMENSIONS: 70 x 55 cm
*(unframed) plus post and packaging. VAT included.
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Catherine Yass has produced Sleep (Swamp), a spectacular limited edition print as part of her lightbox artwork commission for The London Chest Hospital. Based on a photograph taken in Florida’s Everglades, this artwork invites viewers into a warm, languorous daydream. As Yass says, “It’s about the places you go to in sleep or in daydreaming. To me this image suggests going on forever, both across into the distant horizon and down into the swamp”.
“I was given the camera when I left college, but didn’t expect to become a photographer; I’ve always had a suspicion of the ease in which you believe an image. I was using it to record performances, and still think of my images as recordings of a place. When I started photographing with it, I put the film in the wrong way round; when I saw that this was having funny effects, I experimented.
I photograph on individual sheets: first of all, the positive transparency on one side of a plate, then another transparency on the other, which is processed as a negative, making it blue. I overlay the two, and there’s a time gap between the two exposures. The photographs are then displayed in lightboxes to make the colours much more intense. There is a feeling of being drawn right into the inner world of the image”
The Guardian interview with Sarah Phillips 2011
Catherine Yass (b. London, UK, 1963) trained at the Slade School of Art, London, the Hochschüle der Künste, Berlin, and Goldsmiths College, London. Important recent solo exhibitions include a mid-career retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, UK (2011), High Wire, 2008 (commissioned by Artangel and Glasgow International Festival and exhibited widely internationally, Descent (St. Louis Art Museum, MO, 2009); and The China Series (Stedelijk-Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands). Her work features in a number of major important collections worldwide including Tate, London; Arts Council of England, The British Council and the Government Art Collection, London; The Jewish Museum, New York; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection, Washington DC. In 2002 Yass was shortlisted for The Turner Prize. She lives and works in London.
Proceeds raised will support the Bobath Centre for cerebral palsy and the Vital Arts participation programme.
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