Husband and Wife
Artist
Lesley Shearer
(Glasgow, Scotland, born 1968)
Date1999
Mediumcolour photograph on photographic paper
ClassificationsPhotographs
DimensionsHeight: 76.4 cm, Width: 101.8 cm
Frame Size: 85 x 107.3cm
Frame Size: 85 x 107.3cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 2000 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions and with income from the Webster Bequest.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG013729
About MeAt first glance Shearer's photographs look like documentary photographs which draw heavily from painting and cinema, as well as from the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson. Whilst the artist's study of her parents, which hangs adjacent, was spontaneous, this work is a complex tableau that was deliberately composed by the artist. Once again, the television is an active participant of the relationship. Unmoved and unmoving, remote control in hand, the man watches the blank screen. The woman has also accepted the situation, but one senses that this will lead to her demise as she retreats into a world of her own, where music and alcohol - the two things that might once have brought her and her husband together - now numb her senses.
Jean-Louis Forain
John Phillip
Edward Linley Sambourne
1881
