Craigie horsfield biography definition

The work of Craigie Horsfield is concerned with relations—among individuals, communities, interactions and encounters, all vis-à-vis the weight of time.

Horsfield is known to use the phrase "slow history" in relation to his work, referring to a history of everyday narratives and lived moments beyond the singular events so often used to organize the past. His work is at times antithetical to a contemporary present that is more concerned with forgetting and fracturing communal experience.

To explore our quiet realities, Horsfield has created photographs, video installations, and sound pieces.

Born in Cambridge in 1949, Horsfield first studied painting at St. Martin's School of Art in London, but decided early on to focus on photography for its "mimetic role," relation to time, and the "immanence of its history."[1] In 1972 he left Britain for Kraków, Poland, attracted by its socialist history and disillusioned with the art scene in London.

Horsfield remained in P