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Pallets, 2005

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP

This series was made in the same sprit as the earlier “photographs of objects,” notably the ones of Venetian mirrors (1997), crashed cars (1998) and Engines (2002). Photographed “on site” in a studio set up in a specialist waste centre, these piles of “end-of-cycle” electronic materials are like contemporary vanitas paintings, and carry a strong moral. At the heart of this cemetery of objects, these piles give an idea of the reality of mass consumption, a process in which objects become obsolete almost as soon as they roll of the production line. The artist’s intervention was limited to simply selecting the palettes according to aesthetic criteria. The composition, forming a repetition of similar motifs within the same ensemble, is in no way the fruit of an “artistic” arrangement: it simply obeys the strict laws of classification and gravity.

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Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
Untitled

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
Untitled

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
Untitled

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
Untitled

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
Untitled

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
Untitled

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP

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