Skirts
Clare Strand
British, born 1973
2011
A gelatin silver print photograph of a small rectangular table covered with a pleated skirt and set before a dark curtain, staged to blur the line between theatrical prop and evidentiary object.
The deep, even grays and careful lighting isolate the table like a silent stage—its neat pleats and soft shadows give it an uncanny, almost forensic presence that makes you imagine what might once have occupied it.
Working within Clare Strand’s invented-archive practice, this staged still life challenges photography’s assumed neutrality by turning a banal prop into a suspenseful subject, continuing a contemporary dialogue about image, narrative, and absence.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
9 7/16 × 11 13/16" (24 × 30 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Donna Redel
Accession
1837.2015.b
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