Photographer Sam Taylor-Wood: “YES | NO”

Up right now and through November 29 is Sam Taylor-Wood’s exhibition of photographs at White Cube Mason’s Yard, London. Titled “YES | NO”,  the exhibit includes three series of photos and one film, in which Taylor-Wood explores “absence and mortality”. Via White Cube:

…the pictures depict a beautiful and expressive landscape, and yet one that is also bleak, almost exhausted, as if the landscape itself expressed the novel’s brutal take on the themes of desire, thwarted love and suffering. One picture depicts two leafless trees, one large and dominant, the other appearing to turn away meekly, in a relationship that seems to embody that between Catherine and Heathcliff. In another, a brisk wind pushes some yellow-grey grass along a ridge beneath a moody sky. Although the photographs are suffused with the chill of winter, the harsh beauty of the landscape gives the photographs a hint of vibrancy and resilience.

I was lucky enough to see some of these works at Mass MOCA a little while back. Lovely landscapes with such a somber tone to them.

Find out more and see some of Taylor-Wood’s work at White Cube.

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