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In his latest series, the most complicated to date, Cottingham continues to challenge the viewer, who is unsure what the photograph reveals. The interiors are composites of religious, utopian, and secular places, combining turn of the century Modernism with cultural iconography such as African sculpture and Asian motifs. Studies in light and space, the images are familiar yet without specific location. The portraits are based on a melting in and out of different race/age/genders, yet gravitate to core identity types. Inhabitants in these spaces appear not as individuals but as representations, which calls into question private consciousness and perception of others. We are uncertain if we are in the past, present, or future. Based on montage, the artworks are puzzle parts reconstituted as “real fictions.” |
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Interior (front view), 2004
digital chromogenic print image size, 42" x 60.75" edition 5 |
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