Skirts
Clare Strand
British, born 1973
2011
A gelatin silver photograph that stages a small round table draped in a pleated skirt as if it were a lone performer, turning an everyday object into an enigmatic tableau.
You’re struck by the centered, low table against a curtainlike backdrop—the soft, repeated folds of fabric echo one another and create a quiet, theatrical emptiness that feels like a paused scene.
By presenting a mundane object with theatrical lighting and mise-en-scène, Strand connects conceptual photography’s interest in absence, narrative suggestion, and the uncanny potential of ordinary things, asking viewers to invent meaning from silence.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
9 7/16 × 11 13/16" (24 × 30 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Donna Redel
Accession
1837.2015.h
Palette
Art Terms
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