Catriona Grant

The Examination Room

About this artwork

Here Grant looks at an abandoned hospital: constructing a tender and poignant vision of the emotional histories the building contained. Cleared of accumulated clutter, the hospital is restored to a more reasonable – even elegant – space, in which people might again take priority. Using the empty rooms as a physical frame and as a private theatre that we can look into through open doors, she has placed the figures of naked women. By using a double exposure, she has given the women a transparency – a suggestion of gradual disappearance, a dying echo or a faltering memory. The people have left, and the building is bereft of its purpose. But that purpose and those poignant experiences are still contained within its walls.

Updated before 2020

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Catriona Grant

Catriona Grant