Untitled (A Machine for Living)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Whitehall

An eerie yellow light artificially illuminates the night sky above an urban scene. Devoid of signs of life, the identity of the place is ambiguous. Glowing vibrantly with a flood of light, a spiral building surrounded by dazzling floodlights prevents a view of what is inside.

'Untitled (A Machine for Living In)' is from a series produced in 1999, and depicts the concrete landscape of the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. Dan Holdsworth photographed mainly at night, using twenty- to thirty- second exposures. The process of time-lapse photography resulted in an enigmatic image that seems to pulsate with light.

Places

England, Kent

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, tree, night, car park, lamp post

Materials & Techniques

aluminium, photograph (as object name), C-type photograph

Artist

Dan Holdsworth (1974 - )

Title

Untitled (A Machine for Living)

Edition

1/5

Date

2000

Medium

C-type photograph on aluminium

Dimensions

height: 92.50 cm, width: 114.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from L & R Entwistle & Co Ltd, London, June 2003

Inscription

verso br: monogram / 2000

Provenance

Entwistle & Co, London

GAC number

17825