Titel saknas. Ur serien Rest and Recovery/Silent Resistance
Artist
Cecilia Germain
(Sverige, född 1974)
Alternate Title
- No title. From the series Rest and Recovery/Silent Resistance
Date2020
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsBildmått (för varje del): 10 × 12,5 cm
Dagermått (cirka): 30,5 × 25,7 cm
Ram: 35,7 × 27,9 × 2,4 cm
ClassificationPhotography
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Countries
Object NumberMOM/2021/351
CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkWith an old large-format camera, Cecilia Germain has photographed black people sleeping. Several negatives are combined in the final works, giving them a unique expression, as if they were older images documenting some unknown phenomenon. Closing your eyes is an effective way of making yourself unavailable and connecting with your inner self. In these times, where productivity and consumerism are valued highly, sleep is provocatively unproductive. Germain has roots in the African diaspora that arose through the Transatlantic slave trade. A trade that gave white people rest and recovery at the expense of other people’s lives. Rest and Recovery/Silent Resistance is about sleep as an act of resistance at many different levels.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerat "Cecilia Germain" i blyerts på höger sida på baksidan av konstverkets ram, Två ramtillverkaretiketter på baksidan av konstverket
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerat "Cecilia Germain" i blyerts på höger sida på baksidan av konstverkets ram, Två ramtillverkaretiketter på baksidan av konstverket