Jillian Freyer: Elizabeth, Cleansing II, 2020

£90£120

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12×10 inch
Darkroom c-type print
Time-limited edition
[Available until 1 January 2024]
Accompanied a signed certificate of authenticity from the gallery and by signed artist label.

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Description

OD Photo Prize 2023 | Shortlisted Artists

Jillian Freyer [b. 1989] holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, where she has been awarded the John Ferguson Weir Award for overall excellence in the Yale School of Art. She has exhibited her photographs at the Aperture Foundation, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, LTD Los Angeles, Back Gallery Project, and David Zwirner Gallery. Jillian’s work employs still and moving images to explore the notion of experience as touch and emotional and physical endurance performed through women’s bodies. She is interested in using the camera as a mediator to observe the tension and sensuality between her subjects.


Artist Statement | “My work explores themes of womanhood, platonic intimacy, and collective experiences. In this group of pictures, I am looking at how gestures and touch connect us. I began making these photos with my mother and two younger sisters to explore our relationships and investigate how intimacy, or lack thereof, can inform beliefs.

I see these women who populate my images as a community- entangled in the landscape, caring for one another, coming together in this partly fictionalized world. It touches on the reality that I want to exist in. However, still, there are moments of solitude, isolation, and reflection — a woman crying in a bed of flowers, and another woman is dragged through the grass. I began making these photographs to understand my experiences and how my ideas of myself and my body were formed. Beliefs are woven into our gestures, passed down from generation through communities. They lie amongst the quotidian, embedded into our very beings. Simple interactions we repeat and observe performed by our mothers, grandmothers, and sisters. I am interested in how these connections shape our worth, how the physical relationship between people holds importance, and how our bodies contain the physical weight of experiences. Touch can be caring or violent, depending on who is performing it. Our bodies hold onto memories and store them within us as we move through the world, slowly carving out a space in which we feel safe.

Texture and surface become influential in these photos in their ability to relay the conditions of the women. I am drawn to imperfections that become nuanced within traditional beauty, the stigma of aging, and the contrast of tension and vulnerability between my subjects. I use photography as a mediator to address the inheritance of beliefs, drawing from personal experience and making photos through witnessed and staged performances.” —

IMAGE DESCRIPTION | Elizabeth is nearly submerged in the lake water as Sadie supports her head from falling under. Elizabeth’s hair climbs to the water’s surface, looking as if it has always inhabited those waters, something that grew there and belonged.

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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 35 × 25 × 4 cm
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