Marie Harnett Still
"The slippage between linocut plates, the purposeful blurring of certain characters’ features, the overlaying of stills and the compression of cinematic time takes her source material far beyond the original trailers as she explores temporality, reality and perception in meticulous detail."
Still explores a body of work by Marie Harnett that celebrates fleeting moments of drama, beauty and suspense from contemporary film. This soft-back publication features small drawings by the artist featuring imagery selected from the 200 to 400 scenes she saves per film trailer; drawings depicting minute details, each no bigger than a postage stamp; and one of her biggest ever graphite works.
Still also documents Harnett’s first ever linocuts. Discover how these were inspired by a sixteenth-century engraving of Christ. A text by writer and broadcaster Charlotte Mullins explores the intense moments of human interaction in Harnett’s work, the artist’s ongoing fascination with the gaze and her increasing manipulation of the image.
Publisher: Cristea Roberts Gallery
Published 2017