a vacant bazaar
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Artspace, Sydney
08.10.10 - 06.11.10
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend)
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999-2010
installation of nine erased magazines with erasings
Artspace view detail
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'a vacant bazaar (provisional legend)', 1999-2010, consists of nine magazines, each of which has been all-but-completely rubbed out, erased by hand by the artist over the last decade. They are an assortment of popular lifestyle-fashion magazines -- Vogue, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar etc. -- dating from the mid 1990s, each one different from the last. All but one of the magazines are linked by a shared advertisement, the near-same detail of which is all that remains after their erasure except for page numbering and most of the covers.
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999-2010
installation of nine erased magazines with rubber erasings
Artspace view detail
Additionally, each magazine is accompanied by a homogeneous, and sometimes substantial, mass of erasings -- the rubber and ink waste produced by the process of their erasure. In certain instances the erasings have been kept separate as distinct, numbered page-piles. A range of spatial explorations of the relationship between the magazines and their respective erasings forms the basis of the 'a vacant bazaar (provisional legend)' installation at Artspace, the inaugural public presentation of this work.
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999-2010
installation of nine erased magazines with rubber erasings
Artspace view detail
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ARTSPACE
43-51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia.