Isaac Julien

Dreaming Red, c. 2009

Light box

59 x 47 in (149.86 x 119.38 cm)

Edition. 6 of 10

$30,000

Isaac Julien’s stunning photo object Dreaming Red is a large but slim lightbox that uses state-of-the-art LED technology to illuminate a breathtaking image taken from Te Tonga Tuturu/True South (Apparatus), his 2008 photographic series made in New Zealand. At the time, this was the artist’s first major photographic work in almost a decade. Julien dedicated this stunning, limited-edition photo object to the memory of Artpace founder Linda Pace (1945–2007), who was a close friend and collector of his work.

About the artist

Isaac Julien

b. 1960

Isaac Julien came to prominence in the early 1980s as a founding member of the Sankofa Film/Video Collective, one of the first workshops in the UK to explore new ideas of representing black identity. From his critically acclaimed documentaries Looking for Langston (1989) and Badasssss Cinema (2002), to his multi-channel installations such as Baltimore (2003), Isaac’s work combines dreamlike rhythms and lush imagery in stylized narratives. His films subvert the cinematic gaze to address stereotypes of masculinity, race, and sexual difference both head on and metaphorically. During his 1999 Artpace residency he wowed Texas with The Long Road to Mazátlan, which has now screened internationally and was the centerpiece of his Turner Prize nomination in 2000 and at Documenta 11 he took audiences by storm with Paradise/Omeros.