5833

Summary

A c-print photograph of a small boat in rough sea, no.2 of an edition of 6.

Display Label

5833 2003 Jorge Sasse born 1962 C-print mounted on plexiglas and board No. 2 in an edition of 8 Is this a real boat on a stormy sea? Do the figures represent migrants? Or tourists at a waterfall? The artist uses numbers for titles, so no clues are given. Sasse lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany. He produces images which are photographic without being actual photographs. He scans, then digitally manipulates, found or borrowed pictures. Familiar subjects become ambiguous or abstract, hovering between artifice and reality. Purchased through the Contemporary Art Society Special Collections Scheme, supported by funds from Arts Council Lottery and Manchester City Galleries’ Corporate Patrons M20154