+ About the work

The Veins, Paris is a signature work from Blees Luxemburg’s iconic series Cauchemar, created during her time living in Paris in the early 2000s. The works in Cauchemar represent a pivotal moment in her career – as it was during this period that the artist refined her visual practice, through her thorough and immersive nocturnal explorations of the city of lights. Employing a singular and highly distinctive visual language, Blees Luxemburg seeks and apprehends the illuminated realities that both haunt and seduce.

+ About the artist

Rut Blees Luxemburg is renowned for her photographic work which deals with the representation of the city, and the phenomenon of the luminous. Her work has been shown in landmark exhibitions such as Elles at Centre Pompidou curated by Camille Morineau and A Handful of Dust curated by David Campany. Solo exhibitions include Phantom at Tate Liverpool and London Dust at the Museum of London. Her large-scale public work Silver Forest - a photographic urban landscape in cast concrete - is part of the façade of Westminster City Hall in London.

Blees Luxemburg’s photographs are held in many public and private collections including Tate London, V&A Museum, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. She is a reader in urban aesthetics at the Royal College of Art and created the iconic cover for The Streets’ Original Pirate Material.