Clare Strand
dal 16/5/2014 al 16/8/2014
Segnalato da
16/5/2014
Clare Strand
National Museum in Krakow - Szolayski House, Krakow
Further Reading. The exhibition showcases a cross-section of her output in photography, video and installation. By playing with conventions, Strand also constantly challenges the received wisdom that photography shows the truth.
The Further Reading exhibition showcases a cross-section of the output of Clare Strand, a British artist working in photography, video and installation. At the Szołayski House, we will also be able to see completed projects as well as installations showing the methods of her creative work.
Many of Clare Strand’s projects are inspired by photos made for functional usages – in criminal cases, instruction manuals or parascientific visual materials created by Spiritists. These provide her with a starting point for her individual, humorous aesthetic quests. By playing with conventions, Strand also constantly challenges the received wisdom that photography shows the truth.
Clare Strand is a multidisciplinary photographic artist based in Brighton, England. She has exhibited extensively both in England and abroad. Her work is held in major collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou. Recent publications include Clare Strand Monograph (Steidl, 2009) and Skirts (GOST Books, 2013). Strand is also half of the ideas-based collaborative team MacDonaldStrand, and mum to two little girls. She is represented by Camilla Grimaldi Gallery, London.
www.clarestrand.co.uk
www.macdonaldstrand.co.uk
The exhibition is part of Krakow Photomonth 2014
Krakow Photomonth 2014's Main Programme probes the important and close relationship between photography and the search for knowledge. It explores various ways in which photography is entangled in the service of knowledge (or lack of it), and the process of searching for facts, truths, answers and meanings through photography. The 12th edition is also an attempt to uncover the roles played by photography as well as a celebration of its various values as a high-potential independent form of research and investigation in its own right.
www.photomonth.com
Image: Clare Strand Aerial Suspension, from the Conjurations series, 2009 © Clare Strand, Camilla Grimaldi Gallery & The Unicredit Bank Collection
Press contact
Karolina Harazim-Mazur Phone: 0048504252424 karolina.harazim@photomonth.com
Vernissage: 17.05, godz. 6 PM
National Museum in Krakow - The Feliks Jasieński Szołayski House
pl. Szczepański 9, 31-011 Kraków
Opening hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Sunday: 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Sunday – free admission all day