GREGORY CREWDSON, Untitled (Yankee septic Emergency)

Vintage C-print Cm 120 x 150Edition 8/10 Signed on verso on gallery label Framed (black wood with plexi) size cm 135 x 160 x 2 Original provenance: Emily Tsingou Gallery, London UK “...More than merely stills from never-before shot films, the traces of Crewdson’s universe are cinematic precisely because they play with time in the way cinema does: with both time and dream. We look at this world and it’s a place we know: we may not like it, nor wish to recognize it, it may make us uncomfortable and squeamish, be over-laden with sinister overtones and unnaturally still but it has an exoticism that is profoundly familiar. The deal that cinema makes with time - capturing, tricking, annexing, faking -this is a deal Crewdson makes with our memories and fantasies. His is a world our unconsciousness has occupied, a dream we have been visited by, a fantasy we have entertained, even peripherally, under the flicker of an eyelid. It is the domain below, the space under the stairs, the shadows beneath the roses where Crewdson takes us to. Here is uncertainty, hesitation, the gulp, the hanging in the balance the space between possibilities, the hiatus before...”Tilda Swinton© 2008 Photology Editions Gregory Crewdson Dream House