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SC0310-STA-PH-1
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Newnham - Building D - Level 2 - Left of D2000
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Talia Shipman
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Darkness / Media Filter, from the series 'Exodus: The Ten Plagues'
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2007
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Photography
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Chromogenic print on board with resin coating
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35.6 x 27.9 cm
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“And therein the irony at the heart of this series lies: even though we are slowly destroying the planet and ourselves, we insist on looking fabulous while we do it.” (Bill Clarke)
In the Ten Plagues series, Talia Shipman revisits the Book of Exodus. In the Shipman photographs, Aaron and Moses are represented by twenty-somethings who could be models for a Brooks Brothers ad if Brooks Brothers featured ill-fitting suits. Each of the Egyptian plagues is paired with its contemporary equivalent, e.g. frogs/overpopulation, boils/aids. Here darkness is fittingly paired with mass media, a gatekeeper feeding us inconsequentialities which blind us to the reality of our overly administered world. “Plague” connotes a calamity caused by a power outside of our control. Shipman is warning us that technology, like Frankenstein’s monster, has mutated threateningly to this very point. (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Purchased from Gallery TPW
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No signature
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No frame |mounted on wood back frame. Conservation needed | The printed surface, that is cover with resin is undoubing from the back frame. Good condition, clean and intact assumed stable | The printed surface needs to be re-secured on the wood back frame, start to unbound.
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