Lot 33
Beat Streuli
68/37
2003
C-print
value $3,300-$3,600
19 1/2 x 26" ed. 1 of 3
courtesy of the Artist and
Roberts & Tilton

Since 1990 Swiss-born artist Beat Streuli has developed a substantial and impressive body of work in photography and video that documents the mundane, transient pedestrian activity of urban life. Streuli’s images of people moving through and among each other, each alone yet among the other, blur a line between portraying anonymity and individuality. He manages to highlight not people’s awkward failures of composure but rather their graceful normality. His pictures consciously evoke a hint of voyeurism—Streuli sees without being seen, and paradoxically and artfully, manages to engage an empathetic response. It is the greatness of mundane intimacy between people that Streuli stresses, the bits of joy in the commonplace.