Madeleine Farley Untitled Flowers
This series of sublime images by the photographer Madeleine Farley revisits Dutch floral painting from the 17th century. Each day she followed a ritual: masked, she bought flowers from a gas station on a busy road, then entered a dark room, silent and dressed in black, to find their voices under staged light. The Dutch painters - also in the shadow of plague - describe contradiction, immortalising what is fugitive in a language of life and death with rare flowers. The spectres here also explore contradiction: schemes are evoked by chance; nature and artifice blur as sunlight is shot by LED; light and mass, movement and stillness, are uncertain; colour is at once vivid and rarefied; commercial flowers become luxuriant, visionary. And the conflicting influences finally reveal emotion. Flowers perish; we perish: this is the message of the early painters and of these images, conceived in the darkness of quarantine as the world is undone.
PRINT SIZES I
room I
Archival pigment print
100 x 80 cm (39 x 31.5 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
Archival pigment print
80 x 64 cm (31.5 x 25 inch)
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Archival pigment print
60 x 48 cm (23.5 x 19 inch)
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room II
Archival pigment print
120 x 103 cm (47 x 40.5 inch)
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room III
C-Type print
110 x 83 cm (43 x 32.5 inch)
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Archival pigment print
80 x 68.5 cm (31.5 x 27 inch)
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Archival pigment print
60 x 51.5 cm (23.5 x 20 inch)
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C-Type print
80 x 60.5 cm (31.5 x 24 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
C-Type print
60 x 45 cm (23.5 x 18 inch)
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room IV
C-Type print
70 x 70 cm (27.5 x 27.5 inch)
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C-Type print
56 x 56 cm (22 x 22 inch)
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room V
Archival pigment print
85 x 60.5 cm (33.5 x 24 inch)
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Archival pigment print
65 x 46 cm (25.5 x 18 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
PRINT SIZES I
room VI
C-Type print
120 x 80 cm (47 x 31.5 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P room VII
C-Type print
100 x 80 cm (39 x 31.5 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P room VIII
C-Type print
110 x 73 cm (43 x 28.5 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P room IX
Archival pigment print
100 x 70.5 cm (39 x 28 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
C-Type print
80 x 53 cm (31.5 x 21 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
C-Type print
60 x 40 cm (23.5 x 16 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
C-Type print
80 x 65 cm (31.5 x 25.5 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
C-Type print
62 x 50 cm (24 x 19.5 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
C-Type print
80 x 53 cm (31.5 x 21 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
C-Type print
60 x 40 cm (23.5 x 16 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
Archival pigment print
80 x 56.5 cm (31.5 x 22.5 inch)
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Archival pigment print
60 x 42 cm (24 x 16.5 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
room XII
room X
Archival pigment print
91 x 60.5 cm (36 x 24 inch)
Edition 8 + 2 A/P
