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Item: Shrouds and Swaddling Clothes of Decomissioned Saints
1996
Installation, 2 x (28 x 45 x 45 cm).
Materials: Plastic, clothes, dirt, hair, glue
Collection: Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City (Inv. no. JD2269).
"The Pope has been decommissioning a lot of saints, which I think is a nice idea. His problem is that he's making new saints. All the fascists in the world are now saints. I took two baskets of clothes, white shirts and things-they were all white—that I made dirty with a little bit of mud and hair and froze them with white glue so that they were hard. The piece is called Shrouds and Swaddling Clothes of Decommissioned Saints. The French said, “They’re not really Decommissioned”—no one could see the piece beyond that." [full text here]
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