Dimensions: image: 442 x 348 mm
Copyright: © Harold Cohen | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is an untitled work by Harold Cohen, created in 1968. It's a print, playing with light and shadow. What strikes me is the contrast between the vibrant blues and the dark, almost suffocating, blacks. What do you make of the formal elements at play here? Curator: Indeed. Note the artist's deliberate use of high contrast to fracture the image. The formal interplay between the saturated blues and enveloping blacks generates a visual tension. The composition seems to deliberately resist a cohesive narrative. How does that resistance impact your interpretation? Editor: I think it creates a sense of unease, like a fragment of a dream. Thanks, I see it differently now. Curator: Precisely. Considering the image as a constellation of forms rather than a representational depiction opens new avenues for appreciation.