The Examination Room
About this artwork
Here Grant looks at an abandoned hospital: constructing a tender and poignant vision of the emotional histories the building contained. Cleared of accumulated clutter, the hospital is restored to a more reasonable – even elegant – space, in which people might again take priority. Using the empty rooms as a physical frame and as a private theatre that we can look into through open doors, she has placed the figures of naked women. By using a double exposure, she has given the women a transparency – a suggestion of gradual disappearance, a dying echo or a faltering memory. The people have left, and the building is bereft of its purpose. But that purpose and those poignant experiences are still contained within its walls.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Catriona Grant (born 1964) Scottish
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title:The Examination Room
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date created:2002
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materials:C-type print
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measurements:110.50 x 136.00 x 4.50 cm
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credit line:Purchased from the photographer 2008
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accession number:PGP 272.6
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Catriona Grant
Catriona Grant
Catriona Grant has studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College in Dundee. She teaches at Edinburgh College of Art and works freelance with community groups on arts projects. Her most concentrated project, with which she has been...