Dimensions: image: 95 x 71 mm
Copyright: © Louise Lawler, courtesy of Metro Pictures, NY | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, here we have Louise Lawler's "Foreground." It's a black and white photograph, and the artwork features Jeff Koons's 'Rabbit' sculpture somewhat awkwardly placed in a domestic setting. What do you make of this image? Curator: Well, the ‘Rabbit’ suddenly seems less shiny and more… stranded, doesn’t it? Lawler is fantastic at revealing the odd relationships artworks have with their surroundings, turning art objects into décor. What do you think about the setting itself? Editor: It's surprisingly sterile. Like a showroom. Almost mocking the idea of home. Curator: Exactly! The whole image hints at the commodification of art, its absorption into this world of pristine, almost clinical spaces. Food for thought, huh? Editor: Definitely makes you reconsider the value we place on objects, both artistic and mundane.
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Foreground is a gelatin silver print showing an open-plan living area in the Chicago apartment of art collector Stefan Edlis and his partner Gail Neeson. The space is empty and minimal, dominated by the clean geometric lines of architectural features that echo and repeat in a composition of vertical and horizontal lines. A partial wall separates the shadowy entrance hall in the background from the brighter kitchen in the foreground. To its left, in front of the door in the entrance hall, a sculpture, Rabbit, 1986, by American artist Jeff Koons (born 1955), stands on a rectangular white plinth that echoes the rectangle of the door in the background. To the right of the partial wall, the upper part of a large refrigerator and the rectangular doors of kitchen units fitted above it also echo the form of the plinth. In front of the refrigerator, a unit with a wooden chopping surface is cropped into the image, providing a strong horizontal line that is repeated by the divide between two compartments in the fridge, the top of the fridge, the top of the units and a ceiling beam visible in the background above the sculpture.
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