HANNAH RICKARDS, winner of the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery 2007-2009

5 - 23 September 2009, Whitechapel Gallery, London E1
24 October 2009, Presented at the Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Hannah Rickards, winner of the 2007 - 2009 MaxMara Art Prize for Women, has completed her six-month residency in Italy, which was awarded as part of the Prize. The resultant work, expanded Whitechapel Gallery from 5 - 23 September 2009. The award, which promotes and nurtures UK based talent, is chaired by Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery. MaxMara has chosen to work with the Whitechapel Gallery because of its wide reputation for championing women artists. 

Rickards’ two-screen film is based on spoken accounts of a displaced image of a city seen over Lake Michigan as the result of rare temperature inversion mirages. The subjective divergences, consistencies, echoes and counterpoints of these accounts, will form the core of the piece. It will be acquired permanently by the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, where it will be presented in Italy from 24 October 2009.
 

“Rickards highlights the human desire to speak the unspeakable…”

Coline Millard,
Nought to Sixty, Institute of Contemporary Art, August 2008