Cornelia Parker has generously produced The Hours, 2022, a limited edition print to coincide with the exhibition, Cornelia Parker, at Tate Britain, 19 May – 16 October 2022.
Inspired by the techniques of pioneering nineteenth-century photographer William Fox Talbot, Parker has created The Hours, 2022, by arranging a collection of glassware on top of a chemically coated polymer plate and exposing it to ultraviolet light. The glassware casts shadows to create a photographic positive on the plate which is developed, inked and put through an etching press with paper. This method creates an illusion of depth with an ethereal effect. The areas of glassware that make contact with the printing plate are in razor-sharp focus, whilst all other areas soften and recede, the curved form of the glass captured in hazy detail. Parker started using glass objects in her print-making in 2017 when she made the photogravure series Fox Talbot's Articles of Glass and has often revisited it since. For Parker, the interest in using glass objects with the photogravure process is the way light travels through the object to leave a ghostly impression on the printing plate. It's part of Parker's longstanding fascinations with the effects of light and shadow, positive and negative space, and the transformation of three-dimensional objects into flattened form.
ARTIST Cornelia Parker
ARTWORK The Hours
DIMENSIONS 80.3 x 64.2 cm
MATERIAL Polymer Gravure on Magnani Litho 350 gsm
EDITION Limited edition of 60, signed and numbered
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