グッゲンハイム美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (グッゲンハイム美術館Instagram)「#WorkoftheWeek: Moyra Davey’s (@moyradavey) “Copperhead” series, conceived following the stock market crash of 1987, consists of one hundred photographs of pennies, which she often installs as a grid. Each coin is seen in extreme close-up, so that Abraham Lincoln’s familiar visage is reduced to a strange, foreign terrain. The images are printed in a format and scale that suggest a traditional portrait, undercutting the mythic and monumental stature typically afforded the former president. ⠀ Because the surfaces of the pennies have been worn down by touch, their appearances vary widely and each photograph is unique; the series as a whole thus emphasizes the individuality of the pennies as objects, as opposed to the standard value assigned them as objects of exchange. Indeed, they come to seem like many sculptures molded by thousands, if not millions, of anonymous hands. ⠀ __ Pictured: “Copperhead No. 57” (1990), © Moyra Davey. #MoyraDavey #GuggenheimCollection #Guggenheim #MuseumFromHome」8月11日 4時11分