Yours, More Pretty
Yancey Richardson, New York, New York, 09/04/2014 - 10/18/2014
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Yancey Richardson is pleased to announce Yours,
more pretty, an exhibition of new photographs by
Laura Letinsky, presented in conjunction with the
release of the artistʼs fourth monograph, Ill Form &
Void Full (Radius Books). The exhibition includes the
most recent works from Letinskyʼs on-going series, Ill
Form & Void Full, which reflects on temporality and
desire in the still-life genre, the self-referentiality of the
photographic medium and the mutability of perception.
Letinskyʼs compositions utilize fragments from her
own photographs and those of other artists like
Richter or Matisse, as well as advertisements culled
from magazines, dissolving the hierarchy between
high and low imagery, and the notion of what is real
and what is mediated. In addition, by using white as a
color, the edges of paper as lines, and shadows as
planes, Letinskyʼs compositions conflate flatness and
dimensionality, upending the viewerʼs sense of space
and perspective.
The arrangements in Yours, more pretty employ two-dimensional elements as sculptural
objects, to dizzying effect. Collaged cutouts of food, feathers, tableware or abstracted swaths of
color are pinned, taped or glued onto reproductions of table surfaces or white paper, all of which
are placed on the studio wall and actual tabletops, creating a multiplicity of facades that collapse
perspective and float in an indecipherable space of light and shadow. As Letinsky describes, “Not
only objects, but our relation to others, to our selves, is constantly shifting…I do strive to clear
away all that is not necessary, to make the picture space a kind of precipice, anticipation always
active.”
Rooted in the Dutch-Flemish vanitas tradition, Letinskyʼs arrangements address the notion of time
and the relationship between ripeness and decay; however, they do so by questioning notions of
photographic authenticity, and the mediumʼs capacity to illustrate temporality vis-à-vis form,
material, and narrative. As Letinsky states, “My photographs are very much about this medium,
its self referentiality…I want an acute tension between what is in the picture – the image, what is
name-able – and its status as an object.”
Image above: Untitled #40, from the series Ill Form & Void Full, 2013. Archival pigment print. 49.5 x 58.12 inches, edition of 9.
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Yancey Richardson is pleased to announce Yours,
more pretty, an exhibition of new photographs by
Laura Letinsky, presented in conjunction with the
release of the artistʼs fourth monograph, Ill Form &
Void Full (Radius Books). The exhibition includes the
most recent works from Letinskyʼs on-going series, Ill
Form & Void Full, which reflects on temporality and
desire in the still-life genre, the self-referentiality of the
photographic medium and the mutability of perception.
Letinskyʼs compositions utilize fragments from her
own photographs and those of other artists like
Richter or Matisse, as well as advertisements culled
from magazines, dissolving the hierarchy between
high and low imagery, and the notion of what is real
and what is mediated. In addition, by using white as a
color, the edges of paper as lines, and shadows as
planes, Letinskyʼs compositions conflate flatness and
dimensionality, upending the viewerʼs sense of space
and perspective.
The arrangements in Yours, more pretty employ two-dimensional elements as sculptural
objects, to dizzying effect. Collaged cutouts of food, feathers, tableware or abstracted swaths of
color are pinned, taped or glued onto reproductions of table surfaces or white paper, all of which
are placed on the studio wall and actual tabletops, creating a multiplicity of facades that collapse
perspective and float in an indecipherable space of light and shadow. As Letinsky describes, “Not
only objects, but our relation to others, to our selves, is constantly shifting…I do strive to clear
away all that is not necessary, to make the picture space a kind of precipice, anticipation always
active.”
Rooted in the Dutch-Flemish vanitas tradition, Letinskyʼs arrangements address the notion of time
and the relationship between ripeness and decay; however, they do so by questioning notions of
photographic authenticity, and the mediumʼs capacity to illustrate temporality vis-à-vis form,
material, and narrative. As Letinsky states, “My photographs are very much about this medium,
its self referentiality…I want an acute tension between what is in the picture – the image, what is
name-able – and its status as an object.”
Image above: Untitled #40, from the series Ill Form & Void Full, 2013. Archival pigment print. 49.5 x 58.12 inches, edition of 9.
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