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Item: These Polished Stones Are from Brazil

Jimmie Durham

2005

Assemblage, 100 x 78 x 1 cm.
Materials: polished stones, painted wood panel, text

Collection: Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City (Inv. no. JD2308).

“Maria Thereza’s father (...) had the idea a couple of years ago to sell polished Brazilian semi-precious (oh, how I love that term!) stones in New York. He sent some to Maria Thereza to make photographs but then gave up the project, so I got some of the stones and used four of them in a work I made for the Reg Vardy Auto Sales Gallery. Those four stones really were only to illustrate (in a non-illustrative way) a text which was the printed version of a speech I gave in Porto Alegre (“Happy Port”) Brazil, earlier in 2005, at the World Social Forum.” [full text here]

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