'Narcissus', Christine Sullivan

Artwork details

Artist

Christine Sullivan (born 1959)

Title

Narcissus

Date 1999

Medium2 photographs, colour, on paper mounted onto aluminium

Dimensionsimage: 1500 x 1840 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by the artist 2002

Reference

P20229

Not on display

Summary

This work was the result of a commission undertaken by the artist during the transformation of the former Bankside Power Station into Tate Modern. For sixteen months between October 1998 and February 2000 Sullivan had access to the changing site as builders worked towards realising the vision of architects Herzog & de Meuron. She has described the intention of her project, saying, ‘I chose to utilize the site’s ad hoc constructions as a means to refer to art practices and locations of art production, such as alternative art spaces and industrial studio spaces’ (correspondence with the artist, 1 June 2004). This photograph forms the right panel of a diptych with Echo, 1999 (Tate P78594), although the artist has specified that the works may also be shown separately. Both images were produced in an edition of five, and depict the spaces adjacent to the undeveloped oil tanks underneath the garden to the south of the building… (read more)