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Lucinda Devlin

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Lucinda Devlin
Artist's Name: Lucinda Devlin
Preferred medium: photography
birth year: 1947
Nationality: US
City: New York

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Between 1991 and 1998 Lucinda Devlin photographed in penitentiaries in twenty states, with the permission and cooperation of the local authorities. She called the resulting series The Omega Suites, alluding to the final letter of the Greek alphabet as a metaphor for the finality of execution. The series includes thirty chilling color photographs of execution chambers and associated spaces, such as holding cells and viewing rooms. With over 3000 inmates on death row and 70 percent of US citizens supporting the death penalty, The Omega Suites brings focus to one of the great ethical questions facing contemporary Americans, about which public opinion continues to be passionate. Working with a Hasselblad camera and long exposures in existing light, Devlin created surprisingly beautiful images. Viewers are often drawn by this beauty and then repelled by the reality of the subject. Devlin expresses an interest in "let[ting] the environments themselves communicate directly with viewers," and the carefully composed and clinically sterile images are, indeed, as objective as our preconceptions allow. Throughout her work, Devlin examines how architectural spaces express the values of the culture that creates and uses them. Her other subjects include: Corporeal Arenas --operating rooms, mortuaries, autopsy rooms; Pleasure Grounds--discos, tanning salons, peep shows, and fantasy hotel rooms; and Water Rites--German spa facilities. (List Art Center)

important exhibitions from Lucinda Devlin

Exhibition Location City Country Date
49. Biennale Venedig 2001 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 10.06.2001
Big Picture II (Zeitzonen) K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus Düsseldorf DE 09.12.2011
EXPOSED - Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 Walker Art Center Minneapolis US 21.05.2011
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Tate Modern London GB 28.05.2010
Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites Saarland Museum Saarbrücken DE 24.05.2006
HEREIN! DZ Bank Collection Frankfurt DE 14.04.2011
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA San Francisco US 30.10.2010
Lucinda Devlin Field Culture & Lake Pictures Galerie m Bochum Bochum DE 08.07.2011
Lucinda Devlin: Subterranea Galerie m Bochum Bochum DE 30.01.2008
Auf die Plätze Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden DE 16.04.2011

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Galerie m Bochum

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Lucinda Devlin

Forum für Fotografie und Kunst, Köln
Indianapolis Museum of Art IMA
K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus