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Unfamiliar Tales<\/strong><\/em>
Shown at: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2008-09)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lenticular photographs, Etched acrylic sheets<\/em>
2 sets of 2, each 90 x 120 cm<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Unfamiliar Tales<\/em> is a pair of image-text diptychs titled ‘How The Most Terrible Solitude Was Overcome’ and ‘How the Long Wait for the Thaw was Endured\u2019. The work features lenticular reproduction of photographic images and text inscriptions cut into acrylic. The texts are very short stories, two new Jataka tales, of equal length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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