Ryan, Paul (2009) Souvenir. [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | ||||||
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Creators: | Ryan, Paul | ||||||
Description: | Souvenir was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum for inclusion in their exhibition Unspeakable: the artist as witness to the Holocaust (4 Sept 2008 – 31 August 2009). The work sought to engender a quality of 'surprised realisation' when one becomes aware that one is a tourist (in the context of visiting a former concentration camp). A revolving postcard rack holds cards which the visitor can take; but there is no indication of whether they need to be paid for. In an art exhibit this provokes some additional complexity. The cards reproduce the nearby drawing ‘Concentrate’, a plan drawing of what the Nazi architect planned for the town if they had won WWII, and a drawing of a peacock from an original pre-war postcard of the town. |
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Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Chelsea College of Arts | ||||||
Date: | 2009 | ||||||
Funders: | Imperial War Museum | ||||||
Related Websites: | http://archive.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/99/index.html, http://www.paulryan.dircon.co.uk/ | ||||||
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Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2013 16:05 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2013 16:05 | ||||||
Item ID: | 6096 | ||||||
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/6096 |
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