Box for Strategies for Departure Project
Print
1998 (made)
1998 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
Cecilia Mandrile uses her computer as a portable studio and, with her printer, she can work anywhere, from airport lounge to bus station. She left Argentina in her 20s and her lifestyle has been largely nomadic. Her work is inspired by the condition of itineracy and the importance migrant people attach to photographs of family and friends – often the only material possessions they carry with them.
She carries with her a troupe of dolls, which she has made by photographing her own face, manipulating the image on the computer, and digitally printing it onto a sheet of cloth. This she trims, stitches and stuffs to form a head, attaching found objects, which act as reminders of places in which she has stopped. She creates installations with these dolls in a variety of situations, which she often photographs. In one project she created a set of ‘ID’ cards – ‘ID’ meaning ‘Intensively Displaced’ not ‘Identity’ (see Museum nos. E.215-218-2005). This box houses one of these dolls.
She carries with her a troupe of dolls, which she has made by photographing her own face, manipulating the image on the computer, and digitally printing it onto a sheet of cloth. This she trims, stitches and stuffs to form a head, attaching found objects, which act as reminders of places in which she has stopped. She creates installations with these dolls in a variety of situations, which she often photographs. In one project she created a set of ‘ID’ cards – ‘ID’ meaning ‘Intensively Displaced’ not ‘Identity’ (see Museum nos. E.215-218-2005). This box houses one of these dolls.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Box for Strategies for Departure Project (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Folded cardboard covered with paper |
| Brief description | Small box for doll from the Strategies for Departure project, brown cardboard with black paper, Cecilia Mandrile, 1998 |
| Physical description | Small box of thin brown cardboard pasted over with black paper. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Mandrile [sic]' (Possibly 'CM'; signed illegibly in pencil on one side.) |
| Credit line | Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund |
| Summary | Cecilia Mandrile uses her computer as a portable studio and, with her printer, she can work anywhere, from airport lounge to bus station. She left Argentina in her 20s and her lifestyle has been largely nomadic. Her work is inspired by the condition of itineracy and the importance migrant people attach to photographs of family and friends – often the only material possessions they carry with them. She carries with her a troupe of dolls, which she has made by photographing her own face, manipulating the image on the computer, and digitally printing it onto a sheet of cloth. This she trims, stitches and stuffs to form a head, attaching found objects, which act as reminders of places in which she has stopped. She creates installations with these dolls in a variety of situations, which she often photographs. In one project she created a set of ‘ID’ cards – ‘ID’ meaning ‘Intensively Displaced’ not ‘Identity’ (see Museum nos. E.215-218-2005). This box houses one of these dolls. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.214:2-2005 |
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| Record created | December 24, 2005 |
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