Jessica Craig-Martin (b. 1963)
(i) AmFar Benefit, Cannes, May 1998
(ii) Guggenheim Opening, Bilbao, 1997
each: Cibachrome print, mounted on aluminium
(i) 24¹⁄₈ x 37⁷⁄₈in. (61.3 x 96.2cm.)
(ii) 24¹⁄₈ x 30in. (61.3 x 76cm.)
(i) Executed in 1998, this work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof
(ii) Executed in 1997, this work is from an edition of five

(i) Maureen Paley, Interim Art, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999.
(ii) Maureen Paley, Interim Art, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

London, Saatchi Gallery, Black Mirror: Art As Social Satire, 2018-2019 (illustrated in colour, p. 31).

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Jessica Craig-Martin lives a double life. In her day job, she snaps stars and influencers at glitzy parties as a professional photographer, and her images are published worldwide in the pages of magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. In her more subversive artistic practice, however, she pictures the excess of this world in photos that are rather too close for comfort. Tightly cropped, harshly lit and unforgiving, these images provide a humorously lurid and carefully anonymised glimpse beneath the immaculate sheen of high society. Zooming in on moments of debauchery and theatrical details of clothing, jewellery, and cosmetics, the artist undermines this rarefied world’s carefully constructed façade of glamour and sophistication. Based in New York, Craig-Martin has exhibited at institutions including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and P.S.1, New York, as well as featuring in the Saatchi Gallery’s 2018 exhibition Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire. Her works are held in the collections of the New Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.