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armour details: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
armour details: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
armour details: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
armour details: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
armour details: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
armour details: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
armour details: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
armour exhibition view: Secured, Art Museum Vantaa
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Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
Armour, found winter gloves, metal, shoulder epaulettes, safety pins
2021
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Part of the solo show, the armour sits suspended above ground – discharged from duty – even if momentarily.
The work is an companion piece to a video piece (Bringing a Poem to a Gunfight) that complicate the relationship of armours with their wearers and bodies. The work puts forth the two parallel inquiries within the corpus on movement, visibility, control and identity. It inquires whether public safety automatically translates to nation building by the way of safety through (hyper)militarization.
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Exhibition views:
2021 | Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight, solo show, MAA-tila gallery, Helsinki
2021 | Secured, Art Museum Vantaa, Finland