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Svetlana Boym

by ARTMargins · Published

See below for individual titles
(2003-2008)

Hand-made digital prints, unframed
Paper size 22″ x 17”,  image size varies
Signed and titled on verso

BOYM DESCRIBES THE PRODUCTION PROCESS:

“I pulled each picture manually out of the printer, its loud protestations notwithstanding. The rhythm of withdrawal is unrepeatable and so is each print. This procedure goes against both the printer’s instruction manual and the mass reproduction of the photographic images.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Svetlana Boym (1959-2015) was a Russian-American cultural theorist and visual artist, and a Professor of Slavic languages and literature at Harvard University. Her scholarship explored the vestiges of myth and memory, as in her acclaimed book The Future of Nostalgia (2001), a theme that also infused her multilayered, manipulated photographs.

  • Leaving LA, Printing Errors, 2003-2008, Print #12.
  • Leaving LA, Printing Errors, 2003-2008, Print #11.
  • Leaving St. Petersburg, Printing Errors, 1997-2008, Print #9.
  • Dyptich Enigma, NY, 2004. Print #7
  • Revolution 1970, 2005. Print #4.
  • Distant Allegories, Providence, RI, 2005, Print #13.
  • Hybrid Utopia, Tatlin + Butterfly, 2007, Print #4.
Condition: note several have light handling creases that are discernible in raking light.

Suggested donation:  $800 each