Alex Prager - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, London London Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Los Angeles, Robert Berman Gallery, We Are The Superlative Conspiracy, 1–15 March 2008 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Alex Prager and Mercedes Helnwein, The Book of Disquiet: An Immoral Drama, Los Angeles, 2005

  • Artist Biography

    Alex Prager

    American • 1979

    Influenced by pulp fiction and cinematic tropes, self-taught photographer and film-maker Alex Prager creates striking, sometimes unnerving images that are filled with a dynamic cast of characters. The hyperreal worlds she creates are packed with human melodrama, like the retro 'damsel in distress' character that regularly makes appearances in Prager's brightly colored and dramatically lit scenes.

    With influences ranging from David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, William Eggleston, Cindy Sherman, and Gregory Crewdson, Prager references the vivid aesthetics of mid-twentieth century American cinema and photography. Pairing photographs alongside her films as part of her practice, Prager presents an eerie, alternative world where more questions are asked than answered. 

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Untitled Action #1 (Finny)

c-print
image 61.6 x 43.6 cm (24 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
sheet 67 x 50.8 cm (26 3/8 x 20 in.)

Executed in 2005, this work is number 2 from an edition of 10.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, London

26 November - 5 December 2024