The Setting
by Sen McGlinn and Sonja van Kerkhoff, 2001


Papier-mâché, computer print on transluscent film, 18 x 18 x 6 cm. Texts on newspaper print in Dutch and English. Some texts are from newspapers and magazines, some are are self-made.

The work looks at the theme of the "frame" as a social space. The words, some related to the spiritual, others to the materiality of things, frame the "I"or the "star" in layers of meaning.






detail.



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of the above
Planned for an exhibition in May.

The photograph printed on transparency is of a clay snail-spiral form. This is nested behind s
everal layers, reminescent of theatre staging and the pinkish background colour you see varies as the light source changes.



the medium
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