Repository Number
en-ca SC0385-BCE-PH-1.3
Location
en-ca Newnham - Building B - Level 3 - Room B3003
Artist
en-ca Cecilia BerkovicCecilia Berkovic (b. 1969)
Title
en-ca Public Displays of Affection: Elvis
Date
en-ca 2007
Medium
en-ca Photography
Technique
en-ca C-Print
Dimensions
en-ca 30 x 30 cm
Description
en-ca Elvis is part of a series of photographs of books in milk cartons, the kind of “bookcase” one might find in a teenager’s bedroom. But these are not just any books. Primarily Harlequin romances, Cecilia Bergovic has taken a magic marker and inked out every word but ‘love’. Elvis also contains three cassette tapes by that arch-romantic heartthrob. Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve! The shabbiness of the paperbacks, the antiquated tapes, the kitchy photos of Elvis are all to the point. A display of affection, perhaps, an obsession, definitely. This is love as crush, as all-consuming infatuation, as passing fancy, as daydream, an idea(l) of romance promoted by popular culture. (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
Inscription
en-ca Signed at the back on label (with information)
Item sets
Seneca Art