Accession Code: wu0790 Title: Cinema: Regal, 2001 Date completed: 2001 Medium: Photograph Materials: Ilfochrome transparency, Light Box Height (mm): 1000 Width (mm): 1295 Depth (mm): 125 Inscription: n/a Location Name: Picture Store Location Description: Location Floor: 0

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme on behalf of Mead Gallery, University of Warwick with funds from the Arts Council Lottery, 2001

Among her photographic work on 'psychological space' Catherine Yass has made several studies of cinema interiors which she always photographs empty to evoke 'an impression of anticipated action'.

A key feature of Yass' work is the heightened colour with which she invests her subjects. This is achieved through a technique in which she photographs the image twice, the first shot is a normal transparency while the second is processed as a negative. The two are sandwiched together and mounted in a light-box to create a vivid but distorted version of the original which dramatises its essential characteristics.