Wuthering Ghosts

Sam Taylor-Wood's upcoming exhibition at the White Cube Gallery contains a series of photographs inspired by Wuthering Heights:

Sam Taylor-Wood: Yes I No
24 Oct—29 Nov 2008
Mason's Yard and No. 1 The Piazza, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8HA

Opening times:
White Cube, Masons' Yard
24 October - 29 November 2008
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm

No. 1 The Piazza, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8HA
24 October - 5 November 2008
Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm / Sunday 12 - 5pm

Supported by Covent Garden London

Picture sources: Ghosts X, Ghosts I.

Several newspapers highlight this connection. The Financial Times:

A friendly, gamine blonde in skinny grey jeans, black shin-high boots and a leather jacket bursting with zips and rakish lapels, Taylor-Wood leads me on a breathless tour of her two-level studio. One room is lined with her latest work - some turbulent but formal Yorkshire landscape photographs, all planes and horizontals and big skies, from a group called "Wuthering Heights"; and a nocturnal set where a kitsch clown struts his stuff under disused London railway arches. (Jackie Wullschlager)

The Times:

The romantic landscapes were done in Yorkshire, near the house in which Wuthering Heights was set. See the two trees braced heroically against the weather? That’s Cathy and Heathcliff. And the Klitschko picture was made in New York. (Waldemar Januszcza)

The genesis of this project is documented on The South Bank Show, in an episode directed by Matt Cain that will be broadcast next November 16 on ITV1:

Matt Cain’s self-shot documentary for The South Bank Show follows a year in the life of film-maker and photographer Sam Taylor-Wood.

With exclusive and intimate access to Taylor-Wood’s life and work, the film follows her as she makes her first narrative film and then promotes it in Cannes; attends the opening of her first major retrospective in the US at Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art; and prepares a body of new work for an exhibition at White Cube gallery to open this autumn in London. Taylor-Wood is also interviewed in the film by her close friend Elton John. (...)
The film documents Taylor-Wood’s working processes as she creates the new pieces Ghosts, Escape Artist and Sigh; all of which will be shown as part of her new exhibition opening at the White Cube gallery at the end of October. Taylor-Wood travels to the Yorkshire Moors and Bronte country, to shoot her Ghosts photographic series, inspired by the book Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Wuthering Heights