Making a Scene

Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood creates a scene by breaking it down into units. She took each of the 360-degree panoramic photographs in the series "Five Revolutionary Seconds," from which one of the works in the exhibition was taken, in five seconds. Each resulting photograph exists on a continuum between a cinematic and a still image, between movement and stasis. The elongated format, which captures the bourgeois interiors of young people, divides the space into a series of episodes. The gap between the quotidian characteristics of the depicted scenes and the dramatic nature of panoramic photography exposes the empty life of a satiated and bored bourgeoisie

Born in London, 1967; lives and works in London