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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of the Arts, London
Take No Photographs, Leave Only Ripples
‘Take No Photographs, Leave Only Ripples’ was first exhibited in the group show ‘Karaoke - Photographic Quotes’, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
The work uses the photographic image as both its subject and media. Reid photographs advertisements, newspapers, magazines, TV shows, and found objects. The photographic finish or precision of this source material, and the attendant consumerist rhetoric, is then degraded and its meaning subverted as it is collaged together, ‘defaced’ with hand drawn marks, and eventually re-photographed and re-printed in black-white. Collage becomes a process of détournement in which the viewer is confronted with the sexualised, the vulgar and the excessive ‘substrate’ of popular imagery.
The exhibition included works by Becky Beasley (GB), Thomas Galler (CH), Aneta Grzeszykowska (PL), Thomas Julier (CH), Anja Manfredi (A), Ryan McGinley (USA), Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs (CH/CH), Clunie Reid (GB) and Oliver Sieber (D).
The work was included subsequent exhibitions: ‘Free’, New Museum, New York; ‘Newspeak: Contact’, International Photography Festival, Toronto; ‘British Art Now’, Saatchi Gallery, London; ‘Karaoke’, Fotohof, Salzburg (all 2010). The work was also the subject of an interview with Reid on the web edition of Bomb magazine (New York) ‘Great Smile, Warm Personality: Clunie Reid’, by Ashley McNelis, July 05, 2012.
Elements of the work are reprinted in Reid’s artists’ book project Faker Drinker Soldier Heiress, published by Bookworks, London, 2010.
