Analysis by Shellburne Thurber released Spring 2023 by Kehrer Verlag

From the text Psychoanalytic Interiors by Lia Gangitano:  While the subject of psychoanalysis has appeared in the work of many contemporary artists, particularly through the citation of psychoanalytic theory, Thurber takes another route in arriving at one of her most significant bodies of work—a series of square format chromogenic prints depicting the unoccupied office spaces of psychoanalysts. Initiated in 1998 in Buenos Aires, the project continued through a Bunting Fellowship (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University) in 1999–2000, enabling her to pursue the project in the Boston area. Unlike art practices that seek to demonstrate theoretical premises, Thurber’s work instead elaborates upon a long photographic history, fusing particular formal concerns with an interest in people: their varying abilities to communicate, and the ways in which the constructed environment (homes, motels, offices) can articulate, by containing, the complexities of the lives that pass through them. The issues most clearly raised by her psychoanalytic interiors and the ideas they evoke — absence, emptiness, the unconscious, the unstable boundaries between self and other— are also subjects of Thurber’s work as a whole.

Texts by Lia Gangitano, Daniel Jacobs
Interview by Jess T. Dugan with Shellburne Thurber
Designed by Kehrer Design (Benjamin Wolbergs)
Half-cloth hardcover, 30 x 33 cm
156 pages
76 color illustrations

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