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That’s disturbing.
(Day theme as in French cinema, teddy bears or twisted childhood?)
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Stuffed animals.
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Still disturbing but much easier to deal with.
Of course real stuffed animals would be several orders of magnitude worse.
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Sorry Mr. Buttons, but you have betrayed me for the last time.
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and to complete the circle, the toys were likely made in Nürnberg.
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Hendeles’ project then? And they let you take pictures of the installation??
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Good eye!
It was part of a great exhibition at the New Museum last year. http://oppositelock.kinja.com/keep-oppo-artsy-1784609420
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Savage, but so witty.
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Well, that first image is so powerful (for want of a better word) that I had to find out where it had come from. Interestingly it has been used to promote Agnès Varda’s film on Hendeles and her project/collection/installation.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423559/combined
It seems you’ve been through a bit of a French phase during all your adult life, so you may find it of interest.
I
still
find the pictures rather unsettling. Original idea though.
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I’ll have to check that out.
The installation is really incredible.
It was deeply unsettling how often something innocent could be juxtaposed with horrible things.
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I bet Varda’s film is interesting. Never seen anything she did, I think although “Cléo de 5 à 7”, “Sans toit ni loi” and “L’une chante, l’autre pas” had good reviews, I seem to remember.
Overlapping innocence and evil (or tragedy) always works pretty well because it affects us on two different and seemingly opposing planes. A sort of oxymoron of emotions.