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MQ

A gesture to Marc Quinn.

In his works that use plants and organic matter, there is great beauty and a glorification of nature. But the nature in them is always embalmed, practically dead: The moment the preservation materials and environment, like a glassed freezer and many gallons of silicone,  will be denied, the plants will decompose, turn into dust and disappear.

This series is a memorial from the 2019 plants that did not survive the summer, nor my neglection. Maybe I was busy, maybe I found it hard to say goodbye before leaving them for a planned adventure abroad so I let them dry- either way, I felt ashamed and mourned their deaths. As a goodbye, I decided to bury them in the pages of a thick Marc Quinn catalog: To put them among his magnificent plant tombstones, between other bodies and bodily fluids and utopian visions of global gardens that exist only in imagination or in the gallery. 

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MQ-OO, analog photograph, inkjet print, 95X70 cm, 2019

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MQ-LO, analog photograph, inkjet print, 95X70 cm, 2019

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MQ-DOO, triptych, analog photograph, inkjet print, 300X70 cm, 2019

For the whole series- please contact.

© 2016 by Tal Hafner.
 

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