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Catherine Yass
Bringing together four different series of works comprising 14 lightboxes and 2 video projections, the exhibition provides the first significant overview of Catherine Yass’s exploration of the traditions of photography and its subjects. Catherine Yass creates distinctive photographs through combining the positives and negatives produced by the photographic process to make single lightbox mounted transparencies . Simultaneously disconcerting and beautiful, her images depict individuals in portraits which are intimate and anonymous, and places which are general but specific. It their duality they are otherworldly, places of secrets and the subjects of dreams. Portrait: Springfield (series) 1995, depicts six individuals associated with a psychiatric hospital set against and within its architecture. They represent and explore institutional power structures and relationships, and are the unseen companion series to her acclaimed Corridor
(series) 1994, commissioned by the Public Art Development Trust. In contrast
Capsule (series) 1999, are four images of deserted Japanese dormitory cubicle, one-person hotel spaces, where the only sign of the previous occupants are wrinkled bed-sheets and indentations in pillows. Metro: Prague (series) 2000, depicts four futuristic passageways of the underground system, the shiny bright optimism in marked contrast to the grey weight of history above. Town: Walsall (series) 2000, are video-portraits of individuals caught in a moment of introspection. Absorbed in their own thoughts, the colour-balance of each image has seemingly drifted, momentarily dislocating them from their urban existence.
Catherine Yass was born in London in 1963, and studies at the Slade School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions including
Manifesta I, Rotterdam, 1996, the British Art Show 4, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1995 and a solo exhibition at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2000. Her forthcoming exhibitions include a solo show at Asprey Jacques, London, and she will representing Great Britain in India Triennale. In 1999 she won the Glen Dimplex Award, and in 2000 she created the Christmas Tree for Tate Britain.
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