Titel saknas. Ur serien Rest and Recovery/Silent Resistance

by Cecilia Germain

Artist Cecilia Germain (Sverige, född 1974)

Alternate Title

No title. From the series Rest and Recovery/Silent Resistance

Date2020

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsRam: 38,3 × 45,2 × 2,3 cm

ClassificationPhotography

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden

On view

Stockholm

RoomGallery 01:7

Object NumberMOM/2021/478

CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021

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 Signerad 'Cecilia Germain 2020' i blyerts på baksidan Selected exhibition history Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Works by the artist