Yellow Curtain
Yellow Curtain
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Artist
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Production Date
2008
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Medium
C-type photograph
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Size
1145 x 1145 mm
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Credit
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2008
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Accession Number
C2008/1/8/2
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Accession Date
22 May 2008
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Department
New Zealand Art
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Classification
Photograph
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Collection
Chartwell
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Description
At first glance, Layla Rudneva-Mackay’s photographs seem explicit – stones and velvet – but their hidden information exercises your curiosity. The fabric hides a body just visible around its edges. This almost-concealed body is sandwiched between the velvet curtain and gravel hills by the narrow depth
of field of the camera’s lens. The artist says her photographs construct incidents, catching moments between bodies and landscapes. This sense of theatre works on an intimate scale connecting the viewer and an absent subject. The latent drama
is rendered static through the photographic process, creating a minimal yet vivid outcome.
