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The memory evoked in Sam Taylor-Wood's large photograph, Soliloquy 1, 1998, of a man asleep on an old couch is of a painting by the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis. Death of Chatterton, 1854, depicts a poet in a similarly languid position, illustrating the themes of suicide and blighted artistic aspiration. In Taylor-Wood's reinterpretation, the high drama has turned to represent the angst of everyday life. The figures represented in the panoramic frieze below, taken in the house of the famous artist and nineteenth-century classicist Lord Leighton, could be illustrations of the unidentified man's dreams or representations of a parallel Victorian world.
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