a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999 - 2008
a vacant bazaar (provisional legend), 1999-2008
installation of seven+ magazines erased with erasings
variable dimensions
This as yet unshown work consists of seven+ magazines that have been (almost) completely erased over the last decade; rubbed out with an eraser by hand by the artist (unlike the Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette project shown at the Venice Biennale of Art in 2007 where the erasing was undertaken only by other people). They are an assortment of lifestyle and fashion magazines: Vogue, Marie Claire, Harper’s etc. Post-erasure, all that remains in each of these different magazines is the same double page advertisement spread-detail, plus incidentals like page numbering. Their covers are also intact.
Each magazine has its own substantial pile of rubber erasings that were cast-off, or shed, in the process of it's erasure. These 'gleanings' are the magazines' insides-out. In a couple of instances part or all of the erasings from a magazine have been kept separate in distinct page-piles. It is anticipated that all the magazines, together with the mass of erasings and their tables, will form a large installation that will be versatile in its configuration.