Al Mureijah Art Spaces 1
Part 1 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 12, 5 March - 5 June 2015. Curator: Eungie Joo; Associate Curator: Ryan Inouye. 51 artists and groups.
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Venue: Bait Hassan Mukhtar
Come to where the flavors are. 2015
Copper, gold leaf on cardboard
The installation also includes dozens of cardboard cartons used to ship Marlboro cigarettes and Lipton tea. Explorations of function, value and transformation, these works begin with empty flattened boxes that are sent to Thailand. There, gold leaf is applied atop their logo designs, augmenting these discards and imbuing them with new value. Borrowing its title from the slogan from a well-known 1966 Marlboro commercial that pictures the American frontier, Come to where the flavors are intensifies the work’s conceptual play through a blend of tobacco, tea and the imagining of Lady Liberty’s alluring musk.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB12 Guidebook
Part 1 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 12, 5 March - 5 June 2015. Curator: Eungie Joo; Associate Curator: Ryan Inouye. 51 artists and groups.