Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 11

Shani Mootoo
Sharon 1/8 - detailed, documentary, interior, color, photography, giclée print

2020

$3,400
£2,581.22
€2,952.37
CA$4,750.29
A$5,283.36
CHF 2,758.81
MX$64,292.91
NOK 35,234.19
SEK 33,043.45
DKK 22,034.65
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

Known for her photographic portraits of interior spaces, Shani Mootoo reveals the curious and often emotive personal narratives of her subjects.  This giclee print by Shani Mootoo is editioned, 1/8. The work is matted, framed. Print size is 21 x 31.5 inches. It is also available in two other sizes, 12 x 28 (framed 21 x 27 inches, edition of 10, $2,000); and 16 x 24 inches (25 x 33 inches framed, edition of 8, $2,600.). Mootoo describes how this image was created: "I was at my printer's studio working on a body of photographs when we were interrupted by a customer who needed his attention for a few minutes. I agreed on a pause so that that customer could be accommodated, and my printer suggested I roam the garden, as there was a lot to see there. Just before the exit to the garden was a room crammed with pastel knick-knacks. A glass sliding door stood closed between me and this room, which seemed to be a combination of very special private space and a storage room. I immediately had the sense that I was seeing a photograph waiting to be taken and, as I had my Sony Rx100m7 camera around my neck, I ran back to my printer and asked if I could go into the room. He generously said, 'By all means, go wherever you'd like".  On entering, there wasn't much room to negotiate, but I was struck by the carefully curated collection of items on one side of this sunroom, and their very careful placement on the back brick wall. I noted that while the items were vastly different one from the other, a colour sensibility belonging to the collector was evident, and there was  a deliberate symmetry in the arrangement, and a palpable love and playfulness in the choice of ornaments. This made me raise the camera and, out of that moment, working the camera, handheld and in manual mode, I made this photograph. I realize that my attraction to Sharon's sunroom tells of my own ongoing interest in the curious collections of others, and my desire to frame and capture them as photographs amounts to yet another kind of collecting."
  • Creator:
    Shani Mootoo (1957, Canadian, Irish)
  • Creation Year:
    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30.5 in (77.47 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Bloomfield, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2917360982

More From This Seller

View All
Christine's Arrangement 1/10 - still-life, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A dark wood dresser, a collection of objects—family photos, porcelain turtle statues, a china plate, a bottle of perfume—meaningful objects that tell...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

Christine's World 1/10 - detailed, interior, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once intimate and engaging, Shani Mootoo’s photographs are portraits of a life. This image of a kitchen—the worn white cabinets, the fridge covered in notes and photos, the toaste...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

Romesh's Wall 1/10 - documentary, interior, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Shani Mootoo’s nostalgic images of her childhood home in Trinidad reveal an intimate and compelling story. Her ‘History Revisited’ series—photographs of interior rooms, furniture and...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

Self Portrait 1/8 - documentary, interior, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This charming photograph of the artist’s foyer feels both familiar and intimate. That is artist Shani Mootoo’s signature style. Her engaging and enigmatic work allows the viewer to i...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

Kavir's World 1/10 - still-life, interior, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Known for her photographic portraits of interior spaces, Shani Mootoo reveals the curious and often emotive personal narratives of her subjects. This framed and matted giclee print ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

History Revisited 1/10 - detailed, interior, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Shani Mootoo grew up in this house in Trinidad. She returned as an adult and created a photographic memoir of its interior in her ‘History Revisited’ series. Her images of these room...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

You May Also Like

Persephone V ( 24" x 19" )
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persephone V by Erik Pawassar 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48cm) edition of 25 signed 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) edition of 25 signed 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) edition of 7 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Lee's Gone by Nancy Baron, 2010, Archival Pigment Print, Color Photography
Located in Denton, TX
"Lee's Gone" is a 24 x 36 inch archival pigment print by photographer Nancy Baron. This photograph features a room with the ceiling and walls covered in ch...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Persephone VI - still life of a timeless environmental interior vignette
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from the body of works 'Persephone', a series of environmental still-life photographs of timeless palimpsest impressions Persephone VI (2006) by Erik Pawassar 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48cm) signed edition of 25 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) signed edition of 25 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) signed edition of 7 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on label custom/larger sizes are available on request _____________________________ Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph. Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado, Raghubir Singh...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Persephone IV ( 24" x 19" )
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persephone IV by Erik Pawassar 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48cm) edition of 25 signed 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) edition of 25 signed 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) edition of 7 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Persephone V ( 40 x 31" / 102 x 79cm )
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persephone V by Erik Pawassar 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) edition of 25 signed 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) edition of 7 signed archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink

Th Hermitage Occupation I
By Lucio Carvalho
Located in Paris, FR
Digital Photography from the series Invasions. Limited print no of 5.
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper