Eileen Neff: Between Us

ICA Philadelphia, PA, 2007
icaphila.org

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, 2009
rhagallery.ie
 

Excerpt, Press Release from “Eileen Neff: Between Us”:

Using the camera, the computer, and the space of the studio, Eileen Neff poetically reconstructs moments experienced outside of them. Clouds move from outdoors to in. Windows appear as apertures onto completely other places. The landscape doubles but does not mirror itself. A blur of motion is bifurcated by one strangely still tree. These arresting images show how unfamiliar the world can be. To cut these moments out of the flow of events and images that daily surround us, Neff uses the camera like scissors.

* The paragraph above also introduces a more extended catalogue essay by Ingrid Schaffner, Senior curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

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Installation view, "Between Us"

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Installation view, Birds I and Birds II

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Birds I
C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 65 inches

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Birds ll
C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 65 inches

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Installation view, Anecdote of the Tree and A Planet’s Encouragement

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Anecdote of the Tree
C-print mounted on aluminum, 44 x 64 inches

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A Planet’s Encouragement
C-print mounted on aluminum, 44 x 66 ¼ inches

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Installation view, including Thoreau, Before Fiction, Dickinson, and Beckett

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Thoreau
C-print mounted on aluminum, 38 x 48 ¼ inches

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Before Fiction
B&W photograph, wooden frame, and book, 42 x 36 x 5 inches

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Detail, Before Fiction

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Installation view, "Between Us"

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Dickinson
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 50 ¾ inches

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Installation view of Studio Wall

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Installation view, Circle in the Rain and Cul-de-Sac

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Installation view, including Circle in the Rain, Cul-de-Sac, Almost (November 21, 2000), and Over the Hill

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Circle in the Rain
C-print mounted on aluminum, 15 x 28 ½ inches

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Almost (November 21, 2000)
Pigment print, 57 x 42 ½ inches

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Over the Hill
C-print mounted on aluminum, 15 x 51 inches

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Installation view, including Over the Hill, First Star, and Falls by Car

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First Star
C-print mounted on aluminum, 12 x 18 ¼ inches

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Falls by Car
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 34 ½ inches

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Installation view, including Slipping Glimpse, Narcissus, Night Falls, and Rendezvous

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Slipping Glimpse
Mimaki print, Height variable x 1inch

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Night Falls
C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 110 ¾ inches

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Rendezvous
C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 63 inches

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Installation view, including This and That, Getting Lost, Sunday, and Five, for example

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This and That
C-print mounted on aluminum, 44 x 49 inches

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Five, for example
Five panels, B&W Photographs, 39 x 60 x 37 ½ inches

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Getting Lost
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 43 inches

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Installation view, including Another Bride and The Visit

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Another Bride
Pigment print, 41 x 72 inches

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The Visit
Oil on B&W Photograph, 40 x 53 inches

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Installation view, Summer (The Couple), C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 63 ¼ inches
and Moving (The Couple), Digital video with sound

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Installation view, "Between Us"

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Domestic Support
Oil on B&W photo cutout, 40 x 25 inches

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Western Wind III
C-print mounted on aluminum, 44½ x 63 inches