Skirts
Clare Strand
British, born 1973
2011
A gelatin silver print photograph that centers a single round banquet table draped with a gathered skirt against a dark curtain, using a familiar object to stage a quiet, theatrical absence.
What strikes you is the disciplined stillness—the table perfectly centered beneath soft, even light while the deep vertical folds of the curtain and the pleated skirt produce a cinematic hush and a sense of withheld narrative.
By isolating and staging an ordinary prop, Strand situates the work in the lineage of conceptual and staged photography, prompting viewers to question photographic truth and to project stories, memory, and atmosphere onto an otherwise everyday object.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
9 7/16 × 11 13/16" (24 × 30 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Donna Redel
Accession
1837.2015.e
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