Name/Title
Studio Portrait (Man Playing Chess)Entry/Object ID
2021.06.01Description
Adad Hannah (b.1971) is a Vancouver-based American photographer and video artist known for his tableaux vivants (living pictures) inspired by historical paintings. His art is concerned with the concept of time and its relationship to photography and video. It also deals with performance and how the viewer's gaze can be constructed or shaped by the artist. Hannah's image stills and videos mimic the style of early photography and classical painting through elaborate staging, durational performance, and the use of live models, which bridges the mediums to create living pictures.
In his series of Studio Portraits, Hannah brings together performance, portraiture, optical illusion and still life, drawing on the staging techniques of early portrait photography while referencing how mirrors have been employed throughout art history.
Hannah has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the B.C Arts Council, the Vancouver Foundation/Contemporary Art Gallery, the Quebec Delegations and Canadian Embassies in Madrid, Seoul, and New York. He has produced works at museums including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Rodin Gallery (Seoul), and the Prado Museum (Madrid).
Hannah’s work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Ke Center for Contemporary Art (Shanghai), the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), BMO Financial Group and the Royal Bank of Canada.
https://adadhannah.com/Artwork Details
Medium
archival pigment print (video still)Made/Created
Date made
2021Edition
ed. 1/3