Christine Borland – Fallen Spirits

Christine Borland – Fallen Spirits – 2006

 Photographic print

Edition of 100

Signed and numbered by the artist. 

£100 unframed.

Christine Borland (b.1965, Darvel, Scotland) makes art which deals with the body, and with our emotional, imaginative, medical and institutional sense of self. Her practice is hugely varied, yet it is united by a number of constants. Chief among these is an insistent interrogation of objects and situations which shed light on the junction between the fact of the body and the more imaginative or conceptual construct of the self: the mechanics and the mystery of human existence.

This photographic print, produced on the occasion of Borland’s exhibition Preserves at Fruitmarket in 2006, features bleached leaves taken from a descendent of Hippocrates' plane tree on the island of Kos in Greece, under which he was supposed to have taught medicine in the 5th century BC. It relates to the sculpture Support Work (Hippocrates 1:075); Borland’s reproduction of the man-made skeleton of steel supports that sustains Hippocrates' now ageing and ailing tree, leaving us to imagine it impossibly arching above us.

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P&P: £30.00 UK, £85 Europe, £105 Rest of World.