Artist Christian Boltanski has frequently relied on the photograph's deceptive capacity to function as an "authentic" trace—a convincing souvenir—of personal experience. The artificially aged tin biscuit box in L'Ecole de la Grosse Hamburger Strasse en 1938 also suggests—along with a pre-war snapshot of German schoolgirls—an authentic, archaeological find. A part of a group photograph has been hand-marked, enlarged and shrouded with an aureole of white cloth; each tin in the edition contains a different enlargement. Everything, the artist points out, has the power to connote; the more prosaic the object, the more profound the connotation can be.
Metal tin, photograph, cloth, tape, and litho pencil.
8.00 x 9.00 x 2.00 in
20.3 x 22.9 x 5.1 cm
Artist Christian Boltanski has frequently relied on the photograph's deceptive capacity to function as an "authentic" trace—a convincing souvenir—of personal experience. The artificially aged tin biscuit box in L'Ecole de la Grosse Hamburger Strasse en 1938 also suggests—along with a pre-war snapshot of German schoolgirls—an authentic, archaeological find. A part of a group photograph has been hand-marked, enlarged and shrouded with an aureole of white cloth; each tin in the edition contains a different enlargement. Everything, the artist points out, has the power to connote; the more prosaic the object, the more profound the connotation can be.
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