'You Know Who You Are' by Abigail Lane

2004

Giclée print on Somerset Paper

Edition of 30

Print size: 65 x 45 cm 

Paper size: 90 x 65 cm

unframed

Taken from an installation in which a pair of mens' brown shoes sit on the floor. Smoke rises upward from inside the shoes towards an overhead light, suggesting a phantom body, a person having left a situation in a hurry or spontaneously combusted. The title refers to the person to whom the shoes previously belonged.

The work from which this print was created was first installed in a basement space with stone walls and earth on the floor. This was at Chantal Crousel gallery in 1997 as part of a solo show called Another time Another place. Later the work was constructed inside a shed with steps leading up to it and wood chips on the floor. It was often shown together with The Figment installation: MCA, Chicago, USA in 1998 (Whether the Roast Burns, the Train Leaves or the Heavens Fall), and then as part of Tomorrow's World, Yesterday's Fever, Milton Keynes gallery, and Victoria Miro gallery, London, both in 2001. It was also installed without a shed, as part of the Mayday group exhibition, Centre d'Art Neuchatel, Switzerland in 1999.