Exhibition

Fig.

21 Nov 2008 – 18 Jan 2009

Regular hours

Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Saturday
10:00 – 17:00
Sunday
10:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 17:00

Cost of entry

FREE

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Impressions Gallery

Bradford, United Kingdom

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Artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin create a contemporary take on the Victorian ‘cabinet of curiosities' in this collection of over eighty photographs made by them over the last three years.

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The exhibition features an astonishing range of still lives, portraits and landscape images made both in the UK and abroad. Subjects include fantastical objects from museum collections such as a ‘Merman' skeleton, a single leaf blown from a tree in Tel Aviv by the blast of a suicide bomb, the hand of the world's tallest living man, and the plastic bag collection of ‘Aunty Ethnie', a relative of the artists. Displayed and numbered in a pseudo-scientific way, each image has an accompanying caption written by the artists — hence the title Fig., an abbreviation of the word figure, a term used in museum catalogues. These personal captions allow them to ingeniously connect their disparate subjects, often in witty, unexpected, and moving ways.

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