

ULTIMATE CONTEMPORARY
58
Magda Biernat
Lifeguard Houses
- Estimate
- £5,000 - 7,000‡
£5,625
Lot Details
Unique work comprised of four archival pigment prints, each flush-mounted.
2010
Each 53.2 x 53.2 cm (20 7/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
Each signed and numbered 1/1 in ink in the margin.
This work is unique. Each print is number 1 from the sold-out edition of 1.
This work is unique. Each print is number 1 from the sold-out edition of 1.
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Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
While walking along Miami’s South Beach one early morning, Polish artist Magda Biernat was struck by the lifeguard houses, which were simultaneously lonely and vibrant, ordinary and unique. Fascinated by typologies and the relationship between natural and man-made landscapes, Biernat walked from one structure to the next, systematically photographing the subjects in the same light, with the same distance, height, camera angle and perspective.