Grace Weston: The Long Night

Description

Grace Weston spins the stuff of great detective novels in her latest photographic series “The Long Night.” It’s a collaborative effort. Weston offers up her staged vignettes and leaves the viewer to draw conclusions. It’s all there, whether in one’s imaginings or in pixels; rain streaked streets, viewpoints of the hard-boiled gumshoe, the fallen starlet, the crook and the “copper.” Grace only suggests intent, leaving us clues to conjure storylines involving the treacherous woman, the scapegoat, the arranged accident, the anti-hero fated to die, the greed, the hunger for power and “mərdər” (spoken with an affected drawn out first and second syllable, coupled with dramatic music in the background).

• Contributors: Grace Weston, Paula Tognarelli
• Publisher: Griffin Museum
• Date of publication: 2017
• Dimensions: 8″x10″
• Number of pages: 80
• Price $30