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Hanna Liden
Out of My Mind...Back in 5 Minutes


Price: £36
Published by Karma

 

112 Pages
21.5 x 28 cm 
Hardcover
Edition of 500
2011
ISBN 0-9821006-8-X

An artist book that combines diaristic documentation of objects informing Liden's work with installations and photography. Shopping bags, trash, heaps, cigarettes, crumpled cash once carelessly stuffed into a pocket - each image is a trace of human existence specific to New York City and the shit it insouciantly peddles, an investigation of solipsism via purchase and discarded goods.

Linden's sculptures of black plastic bags over-filled with poured plaster are a consideration of those accessories originally conceived to hide a pedestrian's taboo purchase - a need specific to the urban environment. The black pastil bag was the solution, just as the trash bag hides refuse and the body bag makes eve death discreet.