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Published to accompany an exhibition at MK Gallery, this is the
first major survey of the work of contemporary British artist and
photographer Ingrid Pollard, nominated for the Turner Prize 2022.
This publication provides the first overview of works by British
artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard. Pollard is renowned for
using portrait and landscape photography to question our
relationship with the natural world and to interrogate social
constructs such as Britishness, race, sexuality and identity.
Working across a variety of techniques from photography,
printmaking, drawing and installation to artists' books, video and
audio, Pollard combines meticulous research and experimental
processes to make art that is at once deeply personal and socially
resonant. 'Ingrid Pollard's practice has long been focused on the
human body, astro-physics and geology, and in particular geology in
the formation of the stars and planets. The title of this
publication - Carbon Slowly Turning - invites us to reflect on
geological time in relation to human time. On the one hand, the
millennia in which carbon, rock and other natural materials are
made, and on the other, the brevity of human existence by
comparison and the affecting nature of geology on the human form. A
number of Pollard's works reflect on the cyclical nature of history
and human experience, where everything is subject to change,
sometimes over hundreds or thousands of years, at other times in
the blink of an eye.' - Gilane Tawadros, Curator, writer and CEO,
DACS 'Ingrid Pollard's work slows down our looking to create space
to consider alternative formations of history and landscape. Across
four decades she has re-scripted Britishness, looking back in order
that we might move forward differently. This is a profound and
timely exploration of this vital British artist.' - Maria Balshaw,
Director, Tate This book accompanies an exhibition at MK Gallery
and Turner Contemporary, curated by Gilane Tawadros, with the
artist, and supported by the Freelands Award 2020. Edited by Fay
Blanchard and Anthony Spira. Essays by Anna Arabindan-Kesson,
Cheryl Finley, Paul Gilroy, Mason Leaver-Yap and Gilane Tawadros.
Art. Art Criticism. This monograph traces Sonia Boyce's trajectory
from early graphic work to her recent mixed-media pieces which draw
on elements of British popular culture and cinema to address
society's positioning of individuals in terms of race, class and
gender. Unquestionably serious and with an unquestionable sense of
humor, Boyce's work, ranging from photography to painting and
installations, is here widely represented, and well-complemented by
three intelligent essays by Gilane Tawadros, a biography of the
artist, and, alongside the essays, excellently chosen excerpts from
Boyce's working diaries. Tawadros' essays address cultural, racial,
gender and visual/art historical issues raised over the trajectory
of Boyce's artistic development, using such theorists as Homi
Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Italo Calvino, and Stuart Hall to
contextualize the artist's magnificent and provocative work.
Built upon the politics of difference, The Sphinx Contemplating
Napoleon examines artistic practice through an international lens.
This vibrant collection of essays and writings – produced in
different cultural contexts and collected over two decades –
introduces the reader to the thought, method of analysis and
everyday experiences that have emerged from an increasingly
globalized world, presenting a potentially radical frame through
which to understand contemporary art. Gilane Tawadros experiments
with methodology to draw cultural difference to the surface: from
traditional criticism to fictional narratives, this critical
variety mirrors her embrace of different perspectives and hints to
the myriad ways in which contemporary art is created and presented.
Using these techniques she explores the work of leading artists
such as Adel Abdessemed, Richard Avedon, Sonia Boyce and Frank
Bowling, offering expert guidance on the rich cultural and
historical contexts of global and contemporary art through intimate
engagement with lived experience. Playing with forms of writing,
from critical analyses to fictional narratives, The Sphinx
Contemplating Napoleon functions as a practice-based meditation on
how to write about contemporary art.
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