WORKS

101 Archaeology (2017)

— Sculpture  -  2000 x 1000 x 300 mm, mixed media; wood, acrylic sheet, acrylic paint, items of clothing, stickers

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— Interactive performance at Tate Exchange (Tate Modern: London, UK)

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‘101 Archaeology’ is part of a continuing exploration of our hyperreal relation to our Past that seems to depend on an accumulation of endless copies of an original reality.

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Here, it challenges the commodified figure of the archaeologist, as I got really interested in how this role has been portrayed in popular culture.

This process of hyperreal-isation of the archaeologist can be attested in this work.

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It is a enlarged copy of a commodity figurine (of Indiana Jones), that derived from a blockbuster movie, that pretends to represent truthfully a certain activity.

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A long-lost reality that shifts into an idealised, fantasised double of itself. It shows the seduction present in the portrayal of the archaeologist that becomes a dream in our mind filled of popular culture.

Interactive performance

at Tate Modern : Tate Exchange - STUDIO COMPLEX (January 2018)

©Guy Bell

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