CV78-PORTFOLIO - W. M. Hunt, Collection Dancing Bear, Vernacular images

PORTFOLIO - Ydessa Hendeles, Collector and curator

Also see the linked essay

The singularity of collections exists at the meeting point of the artists’ sensitivities and the collector’s philosophy. In the case of Ydessa Hendeles’s collection, this marriage of viewpoints results in a rich exploration of the pathologies, contradictions, and anxieties of contemporary Western societies.

Projects such as the Teddy Bear project and Predators and Prey investigate familiar items and topics to reveal their underlying nature and suggest original perspectives that force viewers to reconsider their own subjectivity.

Partners (The Teddy Bear Project), 2002, Installation Haus der Kunst, Munich.
© Ydessa Hendeles

Partners (The Teddy Bear Project), 2002, selected vernacular images, sélection d’images vernaculaires.
© Ydessa Hendeles

Maurizio Cattelan, Him, 2002, Installation Haus der Kunst, Munich.
© Maurizio Cattelan

Predators & Prey, 2005, Toronto; Sandalo Pelle Suola Cuoio, Gucci, 2005; The Denslow’s Mother Goose Project, 2005; André Kertesz (1894-1985) The House of Silence, 1928; Vampire Killing Kit, c 1900.
© Ydessa Hendeles

Predators & Prey (The Zeppelin Project), 2002-2005, Installation: Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Courtesy the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto: Photo by Robert Keziere.
© Ydessa Hendeles

Predators & Prey (The Zeppelin Project), 2002-2005 (details), Selected cigarette-card photographs, Courtesy the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto..
© Ydessa Hendeles

La rédaction · CV78 · Monday, 02 June 2008 00:00
http://cielvariablearchives.org/en/articles-and-portfolios-cv78/portfolio-ydessan-hendeles-collector-curator.html

COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY

CIEL VARIABLE 78 Printemps 2008 | Spring 2008

Why does one collect photographic images? What motivates an individual to select only a few printed images from among thousands and assemble them into a collection that says as much about that individual as about his or her environment?

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