Yoanna Walden: The Lunatics’ Common Room-Restrain

£125.00

The Lunatics’ Common Room is an artistic engagement with the lives of those who found themselves deprived of their personal autonomy in mental asylums over the past three centuries.

The imagery draws upon the life, writings, and art of historic individuals, including John Thomas Perceval, Antonin Artaud, Unica Zürn, Bessie Head, Osamu Dazai and Valérie Valère, as well as the experiences of my uncle and myself. Walden views and reads the works of these historical figures, responding to images and extracting words/phrases that resonate with her and generate visual impulses, which Walden then turn into photographs. Through this process of bringing fragments of the past into a circulating dialogue with the present, she aims to create an alternative space of existence in which suppressed ontologies can be shared outside institutional boundaries, an imagined ‘room of our own’.

Print size 40×30cm

Printed on Hahnemühle Agave 290gsm

Please email info@imageprintcentre.co.uk for specific requests.

The Lunatics’ Common Room is an artistic engagement with the lives of those who found themselves deprived of their personal autonomy in mental asylums over the past three centuries.

The imagery draws upon the life, writings, and art of historic individuals, including John Thomas Perceval, Antonin Artaud, Unica Zürn, Bessie Head, Osamu Dazai and Valérie Valère, as well as the experiences of my uncle and myself. Walden views and reads the works of these historical figures, responding to images and extracting words/phrases that resonate with her and generate visual impulses, which Walden then turn into photographs. Through this process of bringing fragments of the past into a circulating dialogue with the present, she aims to create an alternative space of existence in which suppressed ontologies can be shared outside institutional boundaries, an imagined ‘room of our own’.

Print size 40×30cm

Printed on Hahnemühle Agave 290gsm

Please email info@imageprintcentre.co.uk for specific requests.

About the artist

Yoanna Walden is a photographer who, employing found objects, diy props, and her own body, stages images exploring themes of confinement, constraint and connection. Rooted in personal experience, her practice interrogates systems of control and the social construction of madness. She engages with texts concerned with power and institutionalization, extracting words / phrases that inspire her and generate visual impulses which she then turns into photographs.

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