Dead Time #05

Artwork ID: ALYDEA0044

For the past few years Alys has been photographing empty swimming pools at night in the UK and abroad. The images explore a twilight world of the in-between: a blurring of day and night, light and dark, the open and the enclosed, plenitude and absence.
Whether municipal or members only, the pool is a space shaped by its patrons. Captured out of use, these familiar spaces stand outside time. Curved light breaks up the horizontal rigour. The comfort of transparency gives way to reflection and shadow. What is cedes to what could be, and the ordinary is transformed.
The geographical location of each swimming pool is kept secret. Shot at dusk or at night, the pools take on a detached, almost melancholy, emptiness, and suggest a sinister feeling that something has happened, or is about to happen.

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61 x 36cm (edition of 35) - £500 101 x 60cm (edition of 15) - £1,500
(other sizes available on request)
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Black wood, White wood, natural wood 22mm flat profile frame as standard. Custom framing also available.
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