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artist invites us to enter a darkened space in which we encounter an antique
desk standing before a large ornate screen suspended from the ceiling of
the gallery. Having conjured up an illusion of authority and officialdom,
Piper proceeds to subvert this by encouraging the viewer to select fragments
from a number of works which deal with the gaps in ‘authoritative’
and ‘official’ histories.
In this way, he offers up the possibility of a personal reclamation of the past in the face of dislocation and loss. Through the works he has relocated in this installation, Piper asks us to explore the ways in which personal identities may be liberated from the constraints imposed on them by narratives of history and tradition.
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image size 661 x 472 (21k) |
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