Josephine Pryde
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Pryde’s work attacks stock photographic aesthetic by technically reworking and reconfiguring images and by addressing the conditions of their display. The surfaces of glossy fashion photographs are disrupted by the insertion of aluminium tubes, which emphasise their ‘objectness’ and their status as artworks. Colourful photoshop juxtapositions of MRI scans of the human foetus and macro-lens desertscapes are unnervingly loaded. They refer to the history of darkroom experimentation and to contemporary medical-imaging techniques. Pryde doesn’t reject the language of photographic imagery, rather she adopts it and layers it up. Her guinea pig portraits are inspired by ‘cute pet photography’ but her choice of subject conjures associations with laboratory research.
Born in 1967 in Alnwick, UK, Pryde received her BA from Central Saint Martin's in 1989; she currently splits her time between London and Berlin. Pryce has exhibited internationally, and in 2016, she won the prestigious Turner Prize. Her most recent solo shows include Atelier E.B at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, UK Swingers at Greene Naftali in New York, and Lapses in Thinking by the Person I Am at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, and is currently represented by Simon Lee gallery.
Courtesy of Simon …
Pryde’s work attacks stock photographic aesthetic by technically reworking and reconfiguring images and by addressing the conditions of their display. The surfaces of glossy fashion photographs are disrupted by the insertion of aluminium tubes, which emphasise their ‘objectness’ and their status as artworks. Colourful photoshop juxtapositions of MRI scans of the human foetus and macro-lens desertscapes are unnervingly loaded. They refer to the history of darkroom experimentation and to contemporary medical-imaging techniques. Pryde doesn’t reject the language of photographic imagery, rather she adopts it and layers it up. Her guinea pig portraits are inspired by ‘cute pet photography’ but her choice of subject conjures associations with laboratory research.
Born in 1967 in Alnwick, UK, Pryde received her BA from Central Saint Martin's in 1989; she currently splits her time between London and Berlin. Pryce has exhibited internationally, and in 2016, she won the prestigious Turner Prize. Her most recent solo shows include Atelier E.B at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, UK Swingers at Greene Naftali in New York, and Lapses in Thinking by the Person I Am at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, and is currently represented by Simon Lee gallery.
Courtesy of Simon Lee
Born 1967
Hometown Alnwick, UK
Lives and Works London, UK and Berlin, Germany
Education
BA, Central St. Martins, London, UK, 1989
Foundation Course, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK, 1986
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