Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek - Exactitudes - Photographs London Friday, May 15, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Exhibited

    Exactitudes, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 7 February - 19 April 1998 (other examples from the series exhibited); Exactitudes, One of a Kind, The Toledo Museum of Art, 25 April 2008 – 29 June 2008 (other examples from the series exhibited); Exactitudes at Selfridges: A collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 26 February – 20 April 2008 (another example exhibited)
     
     

  • Literature

    Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek: Exactitudes, 2002, cover; Peter York, ‘Tribal Gathering’ in The Independent Magazine, 29 March 2008, pp. 20-27

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include: Nr. 89 Miss Shapes, London, 2008; Nr. 90 Geeks, London, 2008; Nr. 91 Bears, London, 2008; Nr. 92 Pin-ups, London, 2008; Nr. 93 Bonkerboys,  London, 2008; Nr. 94 Bu Ying!,  London, 2008; Nr. 95 City Girls,  London, 2008; Nr. 96 Casettes Gang, London, 2008 and Nr. 01 Gabbers, Rotterdam, 1994
     
    Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years. Rotterdam's heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains  a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, although since 1998 they have also worked in cities abroad.  
     
    They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
     
    Wim van Sinderen, Senior Curator, Museum of Photography, The Hague
     

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London Series from Exactitudes

1994-2008
Nine Colour coupler prints, each Diasec mounted, printed 2009.
One 59 x 84 cm. (23 1/4 x 33 in) and eight 59 x 41.9 cm. (23 1/4 x 16 1/2 in).
Each signed and numbered 2/3 in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 ≠†

Sold for £6,250

Photographs

16 May 2009, 3pm
London