At a distance, the images and their materials seem familiar motifs of industrial modernism: smoke stacks, cannons, and airships. The materials, as well, are at first sight reassuringly frank: bronze, rubber, paper, ink. We are in what appears to be a 19th century archival project, a half affectionate documentation of a past safely dead and buried. On a second take, however, there is something clearly wrong here.
Exhibition Dates: 13 November – 13 December 2014
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aluminum leaf, UV-stable structural PVC
200 x 92 x 10 cm

Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

Copper leaf, vehicle exhaust emission, acrylic binder on Arches hot pressed archival paper
76 x 57cm (paper), 80.5 x 61.5cm (framed)

bronze, cupric nitrate patina, rope, thread, aerosol can, digital print on PVC, motion-sensor operated fan
160 x 38 x 38cm (girl), 400 x 160 x 160cm (overall)
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