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2002: Violence and Happiness


Date: 2003
Medium: Installation of 10 Individual Vinyl Banners (each 200x 120 cm). Installation sizes and formats variable

 

 

 

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Above: Installation at the Natural History Museum, South Africa, 2002.
Below: Installation at Iwalewa Haus, Germany, 2010. Animated video stills mounted in digital photoframes. Photo credit: Abrie Fourie

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