Anna Fox
My Mother's Cupboards and My Father's Words (02), 1999
C-Type colour print
23 x 31.5 cms
9 1/16 x 12 6/16 ins
Series: 07. My Mother's Cupboards and my Father's Words (1999)
10319
Exhibitions
Masculinities. Liberation through Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, 2020 (and tour)Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, 13 July - 23 August 2020 (this print)
My Mothers Cupboards and My Fathers Words (1999), designed originally as a miniature book using images and texts, tells an unusual story about family relationships. While Fox's father was ill...
My Mothers Cupboards and My Fathers Words (1999), designed originally as a miniature book using images and texts, tells an unusual story about family relationships. While Fox's father was ill for many years Anna kept a notebook recording his outbursts that were mainly directed at the female members of his family. His quotes paired with a series of claustrophobic images of her mothers' neatly kept cupboards reveal a couple struggling to keep an even keel in the wake of a rapidly debilitating disease.
Anna Fox / British Photography / The Hyman Collection
Anna Fox / British Photography / The Hyman Collection