Sara Cwynar: Glass Life Limited-Edition Box Set

Aperture is delighted to present a special limited-edition box set of Sara Cwynar: Glass Life, on the occasion of the publication of the first comprehensive monograph to date of this Canadian-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist.

Bringing together Cwynar’s multilayered portraits and stills from her films Soft Film (2016), Rose Gold (2017), and Red Film (2018), Glass Life serves as a feminist-inflected investigation of color, cultural theory, and image-driven consumer culture. Cwynar’s research-driven and visually complex images constitute the hallmarks of contemporary post–Pictures Generation work—in which photography is pursued in relation to film, sculpture, digital culture, and the cultural and technological history of image-making. Her work revolves around her interest in subjective notions of beauty through images; the fetishization of consumer objects and colors; and the exploration of the informal image archives that have emerged around the industrialization and capitalization of these ideas.

As part of her core practice, Cwynar collects, arranges, and archives found objects and eBay purchases. She creates studio assemblages of these consumer objects, exploring how images circulate online—and how the lives and purposes of physical objects and their likenesses change over time.

This special limited-edition box set comprises a differentiated version of the monograph accompanied by an 8-by-10-inch C-print signed by the artist on the verso.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.