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novembre 08, 2021 - Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian's artist spotlight to feature Sally Mann photograph from new body of work, Vinculum, will be revealed on november 19 and available exclusively online for 48 hours

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NEW YORK, November 8, 2021—Gagosian's Artist Spotlight—an #online series that focuses on an individual artist for one week each month—is pleased to present a new photograph by #sallymann. The featured work will be revealed at gagosian.com on November 19 and available exclusively #online for forty-eight hours.Artist Spotlight: #sallymann features a platinum print made this year that is part of Vinculum, a new, never-before-seen series of photographs the artist initiated in 2016. Focusing on the abiding and tenuous nature of human connection, this body of work continues her search for personal, social, and historical meaning in the landscape. Developed with Mann's dedication to exploratory process and technique, the print transforms a hillside scene of farmland crossed by utility lines into a sublime image that reflects on themes of empathy and communication.

From the distinctive photographs of her children in the Family Pictures (1984–94) series to those of decomposing bodies in What Remains (2000–03) and the spaces of Cy Twombly's studio in Remembered Light (1999–2012), Mann's work has consistently been guided by her interests in family, mortality, history, and nature. Central to her investigation of those themes are the landscapes that she has photographed both near her home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and across the South for over three decades. As she has described it, "This gradual move from the family pictures to the landscapes was a shift from what I thought of as our private, individual memories to the more public, emotional memories, those that the past discloses through traces inscribed on our surroundings." Often using a view camera, Mann draws on the history of both her medium and the Southern landscape to produce photographs that are expressive and elegiac. Making images of overlooked patches of land as well as historically significant sites such as Civil War battlefields, she imbues her landscape photography with her singular vision, testing its capacity to convey spirited feeling and bear public witness to the events of the past and present.

On November 17, a new video featuring an interview with Mann will debut on Gagosian Quarterly online. Filmed at work in her darkroom and studio and within the surrounding landscape, she discusses her approach to making and printing pictures. In doing so, she expands on the revelations of Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Awards and winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2016. Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, a major survey exhibition, opened in 2018 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and traveled extensively across the United States and to the Jeu de Paume, Paris. This year, Mann was honored with the OPUS Award by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame.Artist Spotlight is a dynamic platform that enables artists to present their work in the digital realm, sharing their stories with a global audience #online. The series, which launched in April 2020 and is now in its third season, is presented once a month as a regular part of Gagosian's programming. Each installment highlights the work of an individual artist through new editorial features and archival content, and new work is made available with pricing information for forty-eight hours.#GagosianSpotlight

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