Anne Yalon

Bio

I was born in San Francisco and spent my undergraduate education at Loyola University New Orleans, where I received my BFA in 2005. I then moved back to San Francisco where I received my MFA in New Genres at San Francisco Art Institute in May of 2007.

Statement

My work focuses on loss, temporality, fragmentation and fragility. I am interested in using existing sites such as architecture and memory as markers for events. I want to capture the fragility of these sites before they disappear from my mind.

Coming from San Francisco and New Orleans, I am hyper aware of the large scale construction projects that can transform an entire neighborhood in a very short amount of time. In living in these two places and visiting London it has become important to me to locate the delicate balance between preservation and new construction. In View From the Tate I have taken snapshots of the skyline of London as seen from the top floor of the Tate Modern. In the museum, the viewer is isolated from the present time, transfixed by work that perhaps has no time code associated with it. When one looks outside of the two-story glass penthouse at the Tate Modern one is reoriented into the present time. The cranes can function as placeholders for the present, which reintroduce the viewer into the now.