Embassy (day)

Catherine Yass (1963 - )

Colour transparency and light-box

1999

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Embassy (day)
  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection

    This photographic image shows the garden of the British Embassy in Paris. Catherine Yass was commissioned to produce this work and "Embassy (evening)". She spent time there photographing various aspects of the building and gardens at different times of day. The heightened, intense colours of her works are produced by superimposing positive and negative transparencies onto one another and making tonal adjustments during the printing process. She discovered the creative potential of working in this way simply by chance, when an incorrectly loaded film was developed. Catherine Yass was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002.

  • About the artist
    Catherine Yass was born in London and studied at the Slade School of Art (1982–1986) and at Goldsmiths’ College (1989–1990). Yass is an artist who uses film and photography to document time and space, using her work to explore the psychological and formal properties of architecture and built environments. In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and she has participated in the judging panels for both The Jerwood Photography Prize and The Citibank Photography Prize. Her work, which has been widely exhibited internationally, is represented in public museum collections including the Tate, London; the Biblioteca Albertina, Leipzig; and The Jewish Museum, New York. Yass lives and works in London.
  • Explore
    Places
    France, Paris
    Subjects
    sculpture (as Subject), topography, tree, garden, lawn, embassy, government building, window
    Materials & Techniques
    light-box, photograph (as object name), transparency, colour transparency
  • Details
    Artist
    Catherine Yass (1963 - )
    Title
    Embassy (day)
    Date
    1999
    Medium
    Colour transparency and light-box
    Dimensions
    height: 65.50 cm, width: 51.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Commissioned from the artist, February 1999
    Inscription
    verso: Embassy (day) / C. Yass 1999
    Provenance
    Commissioned from the artist by the Government Art Collection in collaboration of the British Embassy, Paris
    GAC number
    17376/1