Relaxation Island

Eleonora Agostini (1991 - )

silver gelatin print on paper

2018

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection

    Artist Eleonora Agostini uses photography to explore the dynamics and spaces of the domestic environment. For this particular photograph, she removed all the contents of the family home while her parents were away at work. When they arrived home, tired, at the end of their day to see most of the furniture from their home in their garden, she asked them both to construct the objects into a tower. The work raises questions both about a house deprived of its belongings, and relationships between children and their parents. A number of the artist’s photographs explore objects, activities and surfaces within the domestic space, which she portrays as absurd and uncanny theatre. She often uses humour and absurdity to question socially constructed roles and power relationships within a family. 


  • About the artist
    Eleonora Agostini (b.1991) is an Italian artist based in London. She received her BA from Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan in 2013 and her MA from the Royal College of Art in London in 2018. She was one of the artists of Futures Photography 2021 (selected by Camera Torino) and Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019. She was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2021. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at galleries and museums including Almanac, Turin, Italy (2022); L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca; Borough Road Gallery (2020) and South London Gallery (2019-20) London (2020); Leeds Art Gallery (2019) in Leeds, and the National Museum of Gdansk (2019) , and festivals such as Getxophoto International Photo Festival, Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Photo OpenUp in Padova, Circulations Festival in Paris and Format Festival in Derby.
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    Subjects
    domestic space, house, chair
    Materials & Techniques
    paper (as artists material), photograph (as object name), silver gelatin print, black & white photograph
  • Details
    Artist
    Eleonora Agostini (1991 - )
    Title
    Relaxation Island
    Edition
    Number 2 in an edition of 5
    Date
    2018
    Medium
    silver gelatin print on paper
    Dimensions
    height: 110.2 cm; width: 88.7 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from New Contemporaries, January 2020
    Inscription
    Signed by the artist, bottom left on verso
    Provenance
    New Contemporaries, London, UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 7 January 2020 Association
    GAC number
    18840