Catherine Yass

Descent: HQ5

  • 2002
  • Photographic lightboxes
  • Interior: Jubilee Place / Jubilee Line escalators

Catherine Yass was commissioned by Canary Wharf Group to make a series of large-scale lightboxes containing photographic images based on the construction site of the finished areas within which the lightboxes are now sited. 

The images were taken by Yass between November 2001 and January 2002 from one of the Canary Wharf towers, which was then under construction. 

Yass's nomination for the Turner Prize in 2002 related to this body of work.  A third lightbox is located in Heron Link.