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Altered Biology

Item date(s): 2022

Jean Lampen


Pages: unpaged
Size: 265mm
Binding: Cloth on board cover
Technique: Collage; drawing
Language: English
Edition: Unique

Type: Accordion fold

Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
Wrapped in a bead necklace on leather thong. Filed separately.

Illustrated in 22 Challenges: The artists' book club; David Krut, 2022.

Reference note:
The artist states: “I explore the strange and fascinating juncture of the serious and the absurd to create transformative and reflective perspectives on the persuasiveness of ‘knowledge’, brands and intuitive associations. What are the physiologies that shape our bodies, our beliefs, and our ontologies? How do we ‘know’? … I make the mundane strange by forging together the sublime and the ridiculous to show how all commodities (including ourselves) are socially conditioned and inscribed. The artist’s book allows for narratives to flow from one page to another; tangential issues thus become threads of themes that carry over as the book is perused.”

Exhibition notes:
leporello

JGCBA, WAM

24 September – 13 December 2024

Ref: GB/30467









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