Margaret Salmon - Source Book 3/2007 - Witte de With 2007
Margaret Salmon creates stylized portraits that weave together poetry and documentary. Focusing on individual characters in their everyday habitats, her slow-moving films capture the minutiae of daily life, infusing them with gentle grandeur.
Salmon portrays the common struggle of common people, constructing documents that represent characters in a social context. Her position is never aggressive nor intrusive, but balances intimacy with respecfutl distance, creating laconic yet moving works that are once sober and lyrical, filled with a fragile sense of humanity.
This publication functions as a reader to accompany Salmon's exhibition at Witte de With in 2007. It contains an interview with the artist by curator Zoë Gray, an essay on Salmon's films by Bina von Stauffenberg, a short story by Raymond Carver and a historical look at neorealism by film critic André Bazin.
79p - EN - 12.5x20cm - softcover
Salmon portrays the common struggle of common people, constructing documents that represent characters in a social context. Her position is never aggressive nor intrusive, but balances intimacy with respecfutl distance, creating laconic yet moving works that are once sober and lyrical, filled with a fragile sense of humanity.
This publication functions as a reader to accompany Salmon's exhibition at Witte de With in 2007. It contains an interview with the artist by curator Zoë Gray, an essay on Salmon's films by Bina von Stauffenberg, a short story by Raymond Carver and a historical look at neorealism by film critic André Bazin.
79p - EN - 12.5x20cm - softcover