Erin Shirreff

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Erin Shirreff is not a photographer, she would tell you, even if the photographic image lies at the center of her practice. Known primarily for her photo- and video-based work, Shirreff is part of a generation of young artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but who refuse act as photographers in the classical sense. And whereas in her work it often appears that art historical references abound (for instance to Donald Judd and Tony Smith, in two pieces in her Kunsthalle Basel exhibition, or to Medardo Rosso and others in previous works), her resultant still and moving images are rarely actually “about” such seeming references. Instead they mine the vexed questions of how images mean and matter to us, and how we negotiate the distance between an object and its photographic representation, or between a photographic representation and our memory of the things it represents. Her exhibition Halves and Wholesat Kunsthalle Basel is the Canadian artist’s first solo show in a European institution.

Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7
CH-4051 Basel
Switzerland
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http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch

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Selection of further exhibitions in: Switzerland

01.08.2016 - 01.01.2030
Landesmuseum Zürich
Museumstrasse 2
Zürich

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01.01.2016 - 01.01.2030
Landesmuseum Zürich
Museumstrasse 2
Zürich

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Erin Shirreff Kunsthalle Basel Main address: Kunsthalle Basel Steinenberg 7 CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland Kunsthalle Basel Steinenberg 7 CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland

Erin Shirreff is not a photographer, she would tell you, even if the photographic image lies at the center of her practice. Known primarily for her photo- and video-based work, Shirreff is part of a generation of young artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but who refuse act as photographers in the classical sense. And whereas in her work it often appears that art historical references abound (for instance to Donald Judd and Tony Smith, in two pieces in her Kunsthalle Basel exhibition, or to Medardo Rosso and others in previous works), her resultant still and moving images are rarely actually “about” such seeming references. Instead they mine the vexed questions of how images mean and matter to us, and how we negotiate the distance between an object and its photographic representation, or between a photographic representation and our memory of the things it represents. Her exhibition Halves and Wholesat Kunsthalle Basel is the Canadian artist’s first solo show in a European institution.

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