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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
Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight (video)
video still: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
video still: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
video still: Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight
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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 the ground– discharged from duty– even if momentarily.
The Armour, along with its accompanying video piece (Bringing a Poem to a Gunfight) looks at armours and bodies and puts forth the two parallel inquiries within the discourse on movement, visibility, control and identity. It inquires if public safety automatically equals nation building by the way of militarization.––
Exhibition views:
2021 | Bringing a Poem to the Gunfight, solo show, MAA-tila gallery, Helsinki
2021 | Secured, Art Museum Vantaa, Finland