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TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

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Becoming Ocean: a social conversation about the Ocean

Clear, Lucid, and Awake - Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection

NICE2025: The Protection Principle Task Force

OcéanoFuturismos: Science Fiction prototyping future Ocean imaginaries

Open call! TBA21–Academy Artistic Residency in South America

Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies
Independent study program, Year One

Organismo | Public program
Independent study program, Year One

Otras montañas las que andan sueltas bajo el agua
Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice

POROUS — Ports as Interspecies Dwelling

TBA21 at the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference, Nice

Gregory Crewdson
Dream House, 2002

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Courtesy the artist | Luhring Augustine, New York

Gregory Crewdson

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Twelve digital c-prints
73.7 x 111.8 cm (each)

Dream House is a shining example of Gregory Crewdson's complete control over his medium and subject. He portrays the isolation and darkness found in the mediocrity of suburban life through a surreal sense of theatre in a style reminiscent of a high budget Hollywood production. Shot in an abandoned Maine home, Crewdson employs a fleet of celebrity faces, such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman, to play the roles of his desperate and lonesome characters. In a similar manner to Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall, the dream like imagery in Crewdson's work forces the question of reality and perceived notions of what it means to replicate life in a fantastical manner. The work is chilling, yet beautifully composed. It is produced in the highest possible quality with acute attention to detail, yet it is this super-realism that exemplifies the feeling of fear in the viewer.

*1962 in New York, USA | Living and working in New Haven and New York, USA