Leading up to the Olympics - Pelle Cass: Where sports meet art

1 July - 1 September 2024
  • In celebration of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Praise Shadows is thrilled to present a collection of photographs by...
    Detail: BU Terrier Invitational Day One, 2018, Inkjet print, 100% rag paper, matte finish

    In celebration of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Praise Shadows is thrilled to present a collection of photographs by Pelle Cass from his Crowded and Uncrowded Fields series, particularly highlighting two new and never before shown works, ICA Roof Diving and Collier Invitational Two. Featuring a multiplicity of bodies that spin, contort, fly, and land, the artist creates still time-lapse images that condense hours of movement and visual minutiae into a single frame. Selected for this online exhibition are works showcasing Olympic competition categories: basketball, long jump, pole vault, tennis, competitive diving and volleyball.

     

    "Cass presents an aestheticized, often whimsical view of sports, emphasizing pattern and pandemonium to tell a different story about the interconnected matrix of humankind. Time is compressed, thousands of shots are combined into one frame, and the viewer takes away not so much an individual story of triumph or loss, but something much more expansive about the human condition and our collective need for action, exertion, struggle and play." --  excerpted from WBUR / Pamela Reynolds (2021)

    • Pelle Cass Volleyball at Northeastern University , 2018
      Pelle Cass
      Volleyball at Northeastern University , 2018
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    • Pelle Cass Dartmouth Basketball Side View, 2019
      Pelle Cass
      Dartmouth Basketball Side View, 2019
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    • Pelle Cass Futures from Baseline, Thursday, Ct. 6, 2018
      Pelle Cass
      Futures from Baseline, Thursday, Ct. 6, 2018
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    • Pelle Cass Collier Invitational Two, 2023
      Pelle Cass
      Collier Invitational Two, 2023
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    • Pelle Cass ICA Roof Diving, 2024
      Pelle Cass
      ICA Roof Diving, 2024
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    • Pelle Cass BU Terrier Invitational Day One, 2022
      Pelle Cass
      BU Terrier Invitational Day One, 2022
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    • Pelle Cass Thalia Beach, Friday, No. 2, 2019
      Pelle Cass
      Thalia Beach, Friday, No. 2, 2019
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    • Pelle Cass Head of the Charles, 2018
      Pelle Cass
      Head of the Charles, 2018
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  • Currently on view in Paris

    Pelle Cass is featured in 13 Paris Métro stops, a major public art project commissioned by the RATP and organized...
    Pelle Cass is featured in 13 Paris Métro stops, a major public art project commissioned by the RATP and organized by Fisheye Magazine.
    Photos by Marie Flament.

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  • Pelle Cass is a photographer from Brookline, Massachusetts. His work is in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, the...
    Pelle Cass is a photographer from Brookline, Massachusetts. His work is in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, the deCordova Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the MFA Houston. His photographs have appeared in publications such as Beaux Arts Magazine, McSweeney’s, GQ, The New York Times, Die Zeit, The Atlantic, The Economist, and many others. New York Magazine commissioned Cass for the cover of its celebrated end of year 2022 “Reasons to Love New York” issue. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Polaroid Collection, and the Artist’s Resource Trust. He’s published the monograph “Pelle Cass” (Just an Idea), and contributed to the books Photoviz (Gestalten), Deleuze and the City (Edinburgh University Press), Langford’s Basic Photography (Focal Press), and The Beautiful Sparkle: Optical Illusions in Art (Prestel), ICP Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis (G Editions).