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Catching Fairies 2, 1996 (C-type photographic print)

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MCW7315378
Image title
Catching Fairies 2, 1996 (C-type photographic print)
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Artist
Collishaw, Mat (b.1966) / British
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Medium
C-type photographic print
Date
1996 AD (C20th AD)
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Collishaw finds it curious that people so often record and document things going on around them, and can't quite appreciate the existence of something unless they capture and preserve it. Catching fairies was meant as an allegorical expression of this thought. In the images, Collishaw stands to his thighs in muddy water vainly attempting to capture fairies in his fishing net. These beings by definition are ephemeral, which makes his pursuit futile and absurd: to capture them would be to destroy them.

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© Mat Collishaw. All rights reserved 2024 / Bridgeman Images
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21st century / allegory / fantastic creature / 1990s / 20th century / art / contemporary art / colour / fantasy / fairy / fishing net / fishing / river / man / art installation / nature / bridge / dream / memory / time / one person / photo / fairy tale / capture / contemporary artist / Collishaw Mat (b.1966) / England / United Kingdom / Europe / artist / Young British Artists
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Largest available format 3212 × 2149 px 7 MB
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Large 3212 × 2149 px 272 × 182 mm 7.2 MB
Medium 1024 × 685 px 87 × 58 mm 871 KB

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