Calais – Dover

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for International Trade, Old Admiralty Building

"Calais-Dover" is a photographic montage of images taken by Mariele Neudecker on a cross-channel ferry journey, with the camera clamped to the side of the boat. The horizon was photographed at eight-minute intervals throughout the journey and the resulting work covers the entire distance between the two ports in small segments. Her works are concerned with the differences between perception and reality. Here we are presented with a view that we would not normally be able to see in real life. Neudecker was born in Düsseldorf in Germany. She studied at Goldsmiths College and Chelsea School of Art in London.

Places

England, English Channel, France

Subjects

topography, seascape/coastal scene

Materials & Techniques

R-type photograph, photographic montage, montage

Artist

Mariele Neudecker (1965 - )

Title

Calais – Dover

Edition

3/3

Date

1998

Medium

Horizontal montage of 44 R-type photographs

Dimensions

height: 3.00 cm, width: 269.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, October 1999

Provenance

Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin

GAC number

17405