Sin título [Untitled]
- 2001
- Chromogenic print on paper
- 40 x 60 cm
- Cat. F_67
- Acquired in 2002
The four photos by Mireya Masó in the Collection were taken during her stay at Delfina Studios in the UK, and form part of the project It’s not just a Question of Artificial Light or Daylight (2000-2001). Washing Away Time is the only one with a title.
It’s not Just a Question of Artificial Light or Daylight brings together three series of photos and an 11-minute video taken in various London parks and in interiors as an intimate account of the concept of landscape, in which human beings are very much present even though they may not appear in the actual photos. In taking the photos she mixed scenes that she stumbled upon by chance with others that she set up, always subtly, deliberately to 'portray', but which gave an image of what was possible and enabled her to play with proxemics of objects so as to convey a close relationship with them. She herself is not always the unexpressed subject. Sometimes there are references to other people as an abstract concept, as in her photos of English park benches dedicated to people who have passed away — with the name of the deceased carved into the back of the bench — and her pictures of rose bushes bereft of blooms in winter, with their names on a little label, which can be seen as a language in itself. In this work Masó takes portraits of human beings, of their feelings and of their changing emotions. The powerful trunk of the felled sequoia is definitely a sign that leads to another sign.
Other works by Mireya Masó