This catalogue accompanies the eponymous Turner Prize winner's extensive solo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, presenting both new works and works shown in Germany for the first time.
The publication, which was largely designed by the artist herself, takes a very unique approach. It presents the elements from which the videos on display are composed—photographs, animation frames, source materials—and at the same time discloses aspects of the artist's working process. As you flip through the book, you move through bodies of material dealing with different but related phenomena, as if following the timeline in one of Price's videos.
Elizabeth Price (born 1966 in Bradford, UK) is a British video artist. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London, and Leeds University, where she received her PhD in Fine Art.
After a career as a musician in the 1980s (she is a former member of indie pop bands Talulah Gosh and The Carousel), she experimented with different modes of artistic expression, including photography, before specializing in videos combining archival footage, photographs, drawings, advertising clips and pop music.
Elizabeth Price makes the transformation of digital works visible. The artist creates moving images, composing visuals, text, and sound to form spatial installations that restage cultural and sociopolitical events and focus attention on largely unnoticed stories. Each of her video works is the result of meticulous research and a wide-ranging examination of archives and collections of material. Over the course of her digital appropriation, Price develops new narratives from art objects and documents of historical events. A recurring topic is the changing world of work as a result of digitalization, the migration of manual work to emerging countries that pay low wages, and the increase in information work, office activities, and administration.
Elizabeth Price won the Turner Prize in 2012.
