Title: The Kiss
Size: 140x180cm
Rut Blees Luxemberg
The photograph, Kiss, seems to glow with an unnatural light, giving the image an almost otherworldly quality. What initially appears to be quite an abstract image, is revealed to be a photograph taken at night of the surface of a pavement in the UK. The blotches on the image are actually discarded pieces of chewing gum trodden into the ground. By casting the ordinary in a beautiful light, the artist asks us to reconsider that which is usually overlooked.
Artist Background
German artist Blees Luxemberg lives and works in London and is represented by well-respected south London gallery, Union. She has recently completed a commission for TLF’s prestigious ‘Platform for Art’ series and her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Tate and the V&A.
Blees Luxemberg’s atmospheric work is concerned with the urban environment and our relationship to it and its shifting states, from lightness to darkness, the inhabited to the uninhabited.
- Other Works by this Artist
- A Modern Project