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Sarah Meyohas — Blue and White Speculation
Sarah Meyohas

Blue and White Speculation

2021

A cascade of blue and white pigment suspends mid-air in Sarah Meyohas's large-scale chromogenic print, frozen at the precise threshold between order and dissolution. Measuring an expansive 228.6 × 152.4 cm, the work commands physical presence while inviting close inspection of its tonal gradations, where cool cerulean bleeds into near-white and resolves into deep cobalt with the logic of financial charts or natural phenomena. Meyohas, whose practice interrogates the speculative economies underlying systems of value, technology, and desire, uses the material volatility of pigment in motion as a formal metaphor for markets, data, and the precarious beauty of things whose worth is perpetually in flux. The photograph belongs to Meyohas's ongoing engagement with performance-based image-making, in which actions are choreographed and captured at the exact instant their outcomes remain undecided. The chromogenic process lends the work a richness and depth that digital printing cannot replicate, anchoring its conceptual themes in a distinctly analog materiality. This tension between the physical and the abstract, between what can be touched and what can only be speculated upon, sits at the core of the artist's practice and gives the image its sustained intellectual charge. Signed by the artist and presented framed, this is a substantial acquisition from Meyohas's mature period and represents the work at one of its most resolved scales. Currently offered through Brintz + County, the piece carries strong institutional relevance given the artist's significant exhibition history and her position at the intersection of contemporary art, performance, and critical theory around value systems. For collectors building a coherent body of work around technology-adjacent or conceptually rigorous photography, this piece offers both visual authority and discursive depth.

Medium
Chromogenic Print
Overall
Framed
Signed
Yes

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Sarah Meyohas, Blue and White Speculation, 2021

A cascade of blue and white pigment suspends mid-air in Sarah Meyohas's large-scale chromogenic print, frozen at the precise threshold between order and dissolution. Measuring an expansive 228.6 × 152.4 cm, the work commands physical presence while inviting close inspection of its tonal gradations, where cool cerulean bleeds into near-white and resolves into deep cobalt with the logic of financial charts or natural phenomena. Meyohas, whose practice interrogates the speculative economies underlying systems of value, technology, and desire, uses the material volatility of pigment in motion as a formal metaphor for markets, data, and the precarious beauty of things whose worth is perpetually in flux. The photograph belongs to Meyohas's ongoing engagement with performance-based image-making, in which actions are choreographed and captured at the exact instant their outcomes remain undecided. The chromogenic process lends the work a richness and depth that digital printing cannot replicate, anchoring its conceptual themes in a distinctly analog materiality. This tension between the physical and the abstract, between what can be touched and what can only be speculated upon, sits at the core of the artist's practice and gives the image its sustained intellectual charge. Signed by the artist and presented framed, this is a substantial acquisition from Meyohas's mature period and represents the work at one of its most resolved scales. Currently offered through Brintz + County, the piece carries strong institutional relevance given the artist's significant exhibition history and her position at the intersection of contemporary art, performance, and critical theory around value systems. For collectors building a coherent body of work around technology-adjacent or conceptually rigorous photography, this piece offers both visual authority and discursive depth.

Medium
Chromogenic Print
Dimensions
overall: 228.6 x 152.4 cm • framed: 233.7 x 157.5 x 5.1 cm
Year
2021
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
B R I N T Z + C O U N T Y

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