Viral Landscapes
Artist: Helen Chadwick (1953 - 1996)
Location: Walker Art Gallery
Date: 1988-1989
Materials: C-print photograph; frame: steel, aluminium, plywood, perspex
Dimensions: each 120 x 300 x 5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £20,000 (Total: £80,000)
Vendor: Helen Chadwick Estate
Review number: 5731 (2006)
Provenance:
The artist's estate.
Description:
These photographs combine panoramic landscapes of Pembrokeshire with 'sea-paintings' carried out on this shoreline and images of the artist's cellular tissue removed from her mouth, ear, blood, cervix and kidney. Each cell group is combined with a visually appropriate part of the coastline, for example the waves evoke ear bones in one. These works are a complex metaphor for change and evolution, the individual and nature, the virus and its host prompted by the heightened AIDS awareness of the late 1980s.
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