Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic | "Exclusive" | Art21

Episode #162: Photographer Catherine Opie describes her intentions behind the permanent installation "Somewhere in the Middle" (2011) at Hillcrest Hospital, a branch of Cleveland Clinic, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Created specifically for the hospital setting, the installation consists of 22 photographs taken from the shores of Lake Erie near Opie's hometown of Sandusky, Ohio. It is Opie's hope that the photographs provide a space for patients, doctors, vistors and hospital employees to experience an ethereal moment during what may be a difficult time in their lives. Catherine Opie investigates the ways in which photographs both document and give voice to social phenomena in America today, registering people's attitudes and relationships to themselves and others, and the ways in which they occupy the landscape. Working between conceptual and documentary approaches to image making, Opie examines familiar genres—portraiture, landscape, and studio photography—in surprising uses of serial images, unexpected compositions, and the pursuit of radically different subject matters in parallel. Learn more about Catherine Opie at: http://www.art21.org/artists/catherine-opie CREDITS: Producer: Ian Forster. Consulting Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller & Susan Sollins. Camera: Mark Falstad & Laura Paglin. Sound: Darryl Dickenson & Heidi Hesse. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Catherine Opie. Special Thanks: Cleveland Clinic. Theme Music: Peter Foley. Thanks to the following volunteers for providing subtitles: CHINESE, Simplified Tiannan Zhan http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/56160/ FRENCH Frenchie4ever http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/90392/ HEBREW Elinoar Almagor http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/90306/ INDONESIAN Dwi Rianto http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/269/ ITALIAN Guiseppe Ricci http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/91497/ KOREAN Elien Jeong http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/88081/ SPANISH Néstor Noziglia http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/79460/ SPANISH (Mexican) Esther Premkumar http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/28394/ TURKISH adeptgunes http://www.amara.org/en/profiles/profile/77137/ Become a volunteer translator by joining the Art21 Translation Project team: http://www.amara.org/en/teams/art21/