She slid down a skyscraper and once tried to throw a piano off a tower block roof. The former Turner nominee tells us about Flood Barrier, a new work inspired by a guillotine-like water defence
, which left Creekmouth – the village that once stood here – destroyed. Yass wanted to study the barrier from different perspectives, but chiefly that of the local bird population, once the barrier is lowered. “I was interested in the idea that they alone can flow through the arch, unlike the river,” she says, speaking by phone from the French countryside. “Then I began wondering what it must look like if you don’t know its function and if it wasn’t made for you.
At first Yass wasn’t sure about photography as a medium, keen to avoid mainstream perspectives. So she took to “solarising” her pictures, by overlaying an image’s negatives with its positives. In Flood Barrier, light leaks have added unusual colours to the film, a nod to the fact that birds can detect more colours than humans.
Pasquette only made it a third of the way across before stopping and shouting: “C’est pas possible!” But he did return safely and High Wire became, says Yass, an analogy “for a dream that can’t be realised. I think that dream of building cities in the air, that whole idealism of high-rise building, was such a utopian one.”Photograph: Nick Ballon
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