Forget-me-not
Wallpaper
2002 (made)
2002 (made)
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Modern twist on a toile de jouy incorporating sexualised images of bondage.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Forget-me-not (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Digitally printed wallpaper and label |
| Brief description | Wallpaper, with label, Julie Verhoeven, 2002 |
| Physical description | Modern twist on a toile de jouy incorporating sexualised images of bondage. |
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| Credit line | Given by Julie Verhoeven |
| Object history | Inspired by the use of French eighteenth-century Toile de Jouy textiles in the Spring/Summer 2001 fashion collections, creative director Peter Saville commissioned the artist Julie Verhoeven to create a digital wallpaper, entitled Forget-Me-Not. Saville supplied Verhoeven with reference imagery of Japanese rope suspension bondage to introduce an element of erotic danger. From this, Verhoeven produced a sequence of virtuoso, linear vignettes that grew increasingly dark in subject and expressive in execution as the series progressed. Experimenting with Flash software to create the final interactive, SHOWstudio's designers developed a labyrinthine route through the drawings using various ‘hotspots’ in each of Verhoeven’s densely packed graphic layers. SHOWStudio also produced a physically printed, commercially available, version of Verhoeven's wallpaper, of which this object is an example. |
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| Accession number | E.1303-1011 |
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| Record created | February 29, 2012 |
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