Dimensions: 30min
Copyright: © Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Iain Forsyth's "Anyone Else Isn't You" is a 30-minute piece. It's a striking portrait, and the texture of the monochrome gives it a unique feel. How do you view this work? Curator: The photograph's reproduction—consider the paper, the ink, the printing process—imbues it with meaning. Think about the conditions of production that shaped this image and its consumption. It challenges notions of originality and the artist's hand. Editor: So, it's less about the subject and more about how it was made and distributed? Curator: Precisely. The choices made in the printing and distribution are integral to understanding its message. What do those choices tell us about value and access in the art world? Editor: I hadn't considered that. Thinking about it materially really shifts my focus. Curator: Indeed. It reveals how the means of production become part of the art's narrative.
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tate 4 months ago
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Anyone Else Isn’t You 2005 is a black and white video created by the British artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard and lasting approximately thirty minutes. Over the course of the video’s duration a total of fourteen people talk on camera about the importance of music in their romantic relationships. The subjects are shown from the front and close up so that their heads and shoulders are the only parts of them visible, and the video footage moves back and forth between the fourteen different subjects, such that their narratives become intertwined with one another. The statements that they deliver, which range from joyous to heartbreaking in tone and content, are intimate in nature and are presented in candid language. The emotional tension in the work is increased by the way in which the video cuts between different subjects, often interspersing deeply contrasting types of story and psychological response.
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