Here Do You Want To, 2014, and Gift For Me, Simon Lee Gallery Christmas 2013 (1), 2015

Josephine Pryde
England, b. 1967, active England and Germany
From the series Hands (Für Mich) (For Me), 2014–20
Ink-jet prints

In this series, Josephine Pryde shows young women’s hands in close encounters with their bodies, screens, or other objects that serve to define them. Her cropped compositions create pitched tableaux that skew ironic and inscrutable, while her use of the vertical phone-camera format mirrors contemporary methods of photography and display. Frozen in time, the women’s unselfconscious gestures seem stylized, pointing toward the selfhood we seldom acknowledge while continually gazing into the world of our smartphones.