Slow Looking: Vasantha Yogananthan

02:02pm - 02:02pm, Thu 25 Apr 2024

The Fisherman, 2013, from the series A Myth of Two Souls - AMMA © Vasantha Yogananthan

Slow Looking: Vasantha Yogananthan

View three images by artist Vasantha Yogananthan, listen to the audio descriptions and/or download the audio description transcripts below.

These audio descriptions have been produced by Caroline Dawson for a live Slow Looking event. Scroll down to view the works that were audio described and discussed on the day. These are accompanied by recorded audio descriptions and transcripts.

Biographies:

Vasantha Yogananthan had his first solo exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery's Print Sales Gallery in 2018. Since then, he has been awarded the Prix Camera Clara (2018), the Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award (2019), as well as the prestigious title of 2019 laureate of Immersion: a program by the Foundation d’enterprise Hermes. Yogananthan will carry out his residency in the USA in 2021 and exhibit his work at the SFMOMA (USA) and the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson (France) in 2022.

Caroline Dawson is a freelance access and inclusivity consultant working with galleries and artists.

A group of people on a sandy shore are at work untangling fishing nets. They are dressed in shorts or saris, their heads and limbs are painted solid colours of either yellow, red, blue or green.

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A pale purple orange body of water reflects spikey grass blades of grass. In between the blades of grass, small triangle spaces have been coloured in in pastel yellows, reds and blues.

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A landscape taken from a high vantage point with a pastel peach sky and trees below whose leaves have been coloured in purples, pinks, yellows and greens.

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