James Casebere

In his new body of work, the artist brings drama into the foreground by introducing the primary elements of water and mist. In Flooded Hallway, 1998, the water filled offices seem to have succumbed to nature and time. A chain of responses ranging from surprise at what went wrong, apprehension, to a sense of threat, to a resigned tranquility is provoked on the part of the viewer. In Four flooded Arches, 1999, the elements of water and fog form part of a subterranean environment that could be a sewer. The fluidity of nature works as a catalyst that transforms the image to experience by introducing the dimensions of movement and sound. Ultimately, reality becomes an archetypal psychological space beyond time. The work has been praised for its subtle mastery of scale and technique.

James Casebere lives in New York. He has exhibited extensively in the United States at galleries such as at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NY and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has also shown widely in Europe including recently a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford; UK, The Centro Galeco de Arte Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. This is his second show at the Lisson. Casebere has recently been short-listed for the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2000. The prize exhibition opens at Photographer’s Gallery from 11 February until 25 March 2000.