Game, set, match! Foto Relevance is thrilled to announce the representation of Pelle Cass. Mark your calendars for an upcoming solo exhibition of Cass' Solo Fields, opening September 2021.
Pelle Cass (b. 1954) is a photographer from Brookline, Massachusetts. He has exhibited at the George Eastman House, the Albright Knox Gallery, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Metamorf Biennial for Art and Technology in Norway, and has presented shows at the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Boston), Stux Gallery (Boston), Gallery Kayafas (Boston), and the Houston Center for Photography. His work is owned by the Fogg Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Polaroid Collection, the DeCordova Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the MFA, Houston. Cass’ photos have appeared in books such as Photoviz (Gestalten), Deleueze and the City (Edinburgh University Press), Langford’s Basic Photography (Focal Press), The Beautiful Sparkle: Optical Illusions in Art (Prestel), and in magazines such as Beaux Arts (France), McSweeney’s, FOAM, GQ, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, and many others. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, Artists Resource Trust, and the Polaroid Collection.
About Crowded Fields: In the reshuffled time of this series of composite photographs called Crowded Fields, play prevails over competition, and whole games are shown out of sequence. Most of the pictures were taken at lightly attended events at pools, fields, stadiums, and arenas at colleges around Boston, where I live.
To make the compositions, I put my camera on a tripod, take up to a thousand pictures, and compile selected figures into a final photograph that is kind of a still time-lapse. I change nothing—not a pixel. I simply select what to keep and what to omit. It all happened precisely as you see it, just not at the same time. Further, these images are documents of an hour or two, containing more information than a conventional still photograph. Beyond matters of technique and subject matter, I hope to convey a sense of play, the eeriness of time, and a feeling of Dionysian chaos.
