Hannah Collins

HANNAH COLLINS (United Kingdom, 1956).
"Kitchen. La Laboral Gijón". 2006
Digital print on canvas. Diptych.
With Joan Prats gallery stamp on the back.
Provenance: Joan Prats Gallery. Barcelona.
Measurements: 192 x 274 cm.

This photograph was part of the solo exhibition "A future Life", held in 2006 at the Joan Prats gallery in Barcelona. Hannah Collins' photographic work is a reflection on the passage of time and the presence of the human trace in different environments. Her photographs of interior spaces reveal an implicit, latent social history. For the artist, fleeting glimpses of cities do not provide a full understanding of their existence. Far from the documentary character, her scenes consciously mix that reality with a fiction that gives them a new meaning. The dreary, institutional "Kitchen" shown in this photograph is part of the artist's research on migrant lives and memory. It is worth linking it to a later series she would present at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón (2017), entitled "The Fragile Feast", which focused on kitchen photography, and opened a dialogue between culinary art and photographic art.

A British artist and filmmaker, Hannah Collins studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, and later extended her training in the United States thanks to a Fullbright scholarship (1978-79). Throughout her career she has held important solo exhibitions in leading art galleries and art centers in Europe and America, and has participated in group exhibitions held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (1987, 1989, 1989, 1989). Albert Museum in London (1987, 1989, 1989, 1995, 2002), the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris (1989), the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto (1990), the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (1992, 1998), the Museo Español de Arte Moderno in Madrid (1994, 2008), the Saatchi Gallery in London (1994), the Helga de Alvear Gallery in Madrid (1999), the Tate Modern in London (2000), the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (2006) and the Kulturhaus in Vienna (2011), among others. Based between London and Barcelona, in 1993 she was nominated for the Turner Prize, in 1991 she won the European Photography Award and in 2004 the Olympus Award. She is currently represented at the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MNCA Reina Sofía in Madrid, the MACBA in Barcelona and other public and private collections in Europe and America.