Catherine Yass is one of the most innovative artists working with film and photography today. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002 and has recently exhibited her work in the USA, Spain, the Netherlands and Japan.

Her short films generate startling new perspectives on the urban environment, capturing familiar sights from highly unusual vantage points. Presented upside down, Descent (2002) was filmed with a camera lowered from a crane through the morning mist from one of the massive construction sites at Canary Wharf in London. Flight (2002) was made from a remote-controlled helicopter circling the BBC Television Centre in London. In her recent film Lock, Yass filmed the Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River.

Continuing her interest in the psychology of space and in her relentless pursuit of the vertiginous, Catherine Yass‚ work HIGH WIRE is conceived as a film and video installation that explores the drama of a solitary high wire artist walking a wire stretched between three tower blocks more than ninety metres above the ground. Yass‚ new work explores the relationship between an enclosed psychological space inhabited by the high wire artist – Didier Pasquette – and the architecture visible beyond him, including the open space through which he moves. HIGH WIRE brings together personal dreams of walking in the air with modernist dreams of a utopian ideal.

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