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Sarah Meyohas — Red Speculation
Sarah Meyohas

Red Speculation

2014

Red Speculation (2014) presents a carefully staged composition in which mirrored planes generate a recursive, tunnel-like field of reflections, folding the viewer into an apparently infinite sequence of repeated imagery. The monochromatic red palette, rendered with exceptional luminosity through dye sublimation on aluminium, amplifies a pervasive sense of intensity and artificiality. Fragments of the body emerge and dissolve across these layered surfaces, sustaining a productive tension between sensuality and formal abstraction that anchors the work firmly within Meyohas's broader investigation of how images accrue and shed meaning through repetition. Meyohas works at the intersection of art, economics, and technology, constructing highly controlled visual environments that interrogate desire, perception, and the mechanics by which images circulate and are assigned value. Red Speculation enacts these concerns with particular economy: the mirrored structure literalises the logic of multiplication and proliferation that governs contemporary visual culture, while the seductive surface of the aluminium substrate implicates the viewer in the very economy of looking the work sets out to examine. The title itself draws an explicit connection between speculative financial behaviour and the speculative nature of image consumption, suggesting that both operate through anticipation, surplus, and the compulsive return to a compelling surface. Printed directly onto aluminium, the work achieves a depth and chromatic saturation unavailable to conventional photographic paper, lending the piece a presence that reads powerfully at scale. Acquired directly from the artist in 2015 and offered here with clean provenance, Red Speculation represents an early and particularly resolved statement within a practice that has since attracted sustained critical attention internationally.

Medium
Dye sublimation on aluminium
Sheet
Signed
Yes
Location
Janet Rady Fine Art, London

For Sale — $9000

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Sarah Meyohas, Red Speculation, 2014

Red Speculation (2014) presents a carefully staged composition in which mirrored planes generate a recursive, tunnel-like field of reflections, folding the viewer into an apparently infinite sequence of repeated imagery. The monochromatic red palette, rendered with exceptional luminosity through dye sublimation on aluminium, amplifies a pervasive sense of intensity and artificiality. Fragments of the body emerge and dissolve across these layered surfaces, sustaining a productive tension between sensuality and formal abstraction that anchors the work firmly within Meyohas's broader investigation of how images accrue and shed meaning through repetition. Meyohas works at the intersection of art, economics, and technology, constructing highly controlled visual environments that interrogate desire, perception, and the mechanics by which images circulate and are assigned value. Red Speculation enacts these concerns with particular economy: the mirrored structure literalises the logic of multiplication and proliferation that governs contemporary visual culture, while the seductive surface of the aluminium substrate implicates the viewer in the very economy of looking the work sets out to examine. The title itself draws an explicit connection between speculative financial behaviour and the speculative nature of image consumption, suggesting that both operate through anticipation, surplus, and the compulsive return to a compelling surface. Printed directly onto aluminium, the work achieves a depth and chromatic saturation unavailable to conventional photographic paper, lending the piece a presence that reads powerfully at scale. Acquired directly from the artist in 2015 and offered here with clean provenance, Red Speculation represents an early and particularly resolved statement within a practice that has since attracted sustained critical attention internationally.

Medium
Dye sublimation on aluminium
Dimensions
sheet: 95.3 x 127 cm
Year
2014
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Janet Rady Fine Art, London

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