{"title":"Caragh Thuring","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"watch","title":"Watch","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"WATCH\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e stands in striking opposition to the chaotic visual language of Caragh Thuring’s painting. Systematic, precise, and meticulously arranged, this volume brings together a selection of watch advertisements that the artist collected from the pages of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e over nearly a decade. Produced for her 2015 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in London, the book reveals the recurring narratives through which this particular commodity is presented: family, heritage, ambition, success, and wealth. What first appears as a dry archive of watches gradually becomes a portrait of the values and desires embedded within their marketing. The watch emerges not only as a symbol of status and aspiration, but also as a marker of the social and economic conditions of its own moment “in time”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSophisticated in form and concept, \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWATCH\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is hand-bound and produced in an edition of ten copies. Thuring sourced the paper stock from the printers of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, giving the book’s thin, pale pages an immediately recognisable quality for UK readers. A timepiece and a time-based artwork in its own right, \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWATCH\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e forms an unexpected dialogue with Christian Marclay’s \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Clock\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2010), another work in which time is transformed from a measure of experience into a cultural and aesthetic object.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54040441389395,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Watch.png?v=1781855650"},{"product_id":"some-men","title":"Some Men","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeticulously orchestrated, Caragh Thuring’s artist’s books counterbalance the more chaotic and visceral construction of her paintings. As with her earlier book \u003cem\u003eWatch\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003eSome Men\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds according to a carefully structured, documentative logic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAfter discovering a box of postcards at a flea market, Thuring decided to distill the story of a secret long-distance relationship between two men in 1980s America into a new narrative. For the book, the artist selected only the typed messages, leaving the handwritten letters behind. Their impersonal, mediated form enabled her to approach the subjects indirectly, in keeping with her oblique conception of portraiture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRead in sequence, these fragments gradually suggest a relationship without ever fully revealing it. The story resides as much in what is shown as in what is said: the imagery of the postcards – including a reproduction of a portrait of Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas – becomes part of the narrative. From these traces, \u003cem\u003eSome Men\u003c\/em\u003e quietly reconstructs a love affair that feels at once deeply familiar and, within the social landscape of 1980s America, transgressive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54911133811027,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4581.png?v=1789049166"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/caragh-thuring.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}