Hari Kunzru, 2006
Hardcover 96 pages
Publisher: Kate MacGarry, London & Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam
ISBN: 9086900305
Dimensions: 26.04 x 19.05 x 1.27cm
Francis Upritchard takes thrift-store pots and remakes them as canopic urns, ancient Egyptian repositories for the organs of the dead; converts old fur coats into stuffed monkeys and chimps; and makes striking necklaces, at once primitive and ultra-contemporary, out of materials like cigarette butts, wire and plastic straws. Perhaps these fragments shore the artist up against her own ruin. A gift from a relative, an unwanted wedding present or a generic tourist souvenir--even the tackiest ornament once played a small symbolic function in someone's life. Upritchard re-purposes these materials to reveal their underlying purpose, to personalise and decorate our domestic spaces and to fabricate memories which can offset our knowledge of our own impending death.
Publisher: Kate MacGarry, London & Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam
ISBN: 9086900305
Dimensions: 26.04 x 19.05 x 1.27cm
Hardcover
Francis Upritchard: Human Problems
£ 40.00