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Item: The Dangers of Petrification II

1998-2007

Installation, variable dimensions.
Materials: paper, stone

Collection: Courtesy de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich.

"The Dangers of Petrification is another new piece(...) which pretends to be a scientific collection of objects that have been petrified. I am a little hesitant about it, because most people nowadays have little knowledge about the real world. In fact, lately I’ve found that most people do not know that the process of petrification even exists, and that the cliché “petrified with fear” has led them to think that the word petrified relates only to a state of fear." [full text here]

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Jimmie Durham, The Dangers of Petrification I, 1998-2007. Installation, stone, paper, knife, ceramics, variable dimensions.

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