Scene from Masculin/Féminin

2015 - Photography (Photography)

Ian Wallace

year born: 1943
gender: male
nationality: British
home town: Shoreham, United Kingdom

British-born and Vancouver-based, Ian Wallace is known for his conceptual art practice and critical writings. Since the mid-1980s, the artist has explored the relationship between documentary photography—often featuring sites of urban development—and abstract monochrome painting, to investigate the characteristics of media-specificity and the limitations of representation.


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Untitled (Breathless)
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Ian Wallace

2000

Untitled (Breathless) presents a folded newspaper article on Jean-Luc Godard’s À Bout de Souffle (Breathless)...

Michigan Central Station
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Stan Douglas

1997

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As suggested by its title, Pipe Opening (2002) depicts a hole in a wood wall exposed by the removal of a pipe...

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Martin Creed

2003

This photograph of Martin Creed himself was used as the invitation card for a fundraising auction of works on paper at Christie’s South Kensington in support of Camden Arts Centre’s first year in a refurbished building in 2005...

Mike and Sky
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Catherine Opie

1993

Like many of Opie’s works, Mike and Sky presents female masculinity to defy a binary understanding of gender...

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Catherine Opie

1994

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Intentionally Left Blanc
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Hank Willis Thomas

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Untitled (Waiters dancing with Itinerants, Onomatopoeia)
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Since 2005, Charles Avery has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of a fictional island...

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Ryan Gander

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Hank Willis Thomas

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South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race....

Meeting #100
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Bread and Roses takes its name from a phrase famously used on picket signs and immortalized by the poet James Oppenheim in 1911...

Cathy (bed self-portrait)
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Catherine Opie

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Catherine Opie’s candid photograph Cathy (bed Self-portrait) (1987) shows the artist atop a bed wearing a negligee and a dildo; the latter is attached to a whip that she holds in her teeth...

I Am A Man
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The image is borrowed from protests during Civil Rights where African Americans in the south would carry signs with the same message to assert their rights against segregation and racism...