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Better be watching the clouds_Plate 60

2000, printed 2017

Walid Raad

(Lebanese, b. 1967)
Culture
Medium
pigmented inkjet print mounted to Dibond
Measurements
Sheet: 76.2 x 50.8 cm (30 x 20 in.); Secondary Support: 76.2 x 50.8 cm (30 x 20 in.); Frame: 78.1 x 52.7 x 3.5 cm (30 3/4 x 20 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Alma Kroeger Fund 2017.194
Copyright
© Walid Raad
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Walid Raad uses storytelling and surreal images to pose questions about political history and what is true. Here, thistle blossoms in a Middle Eastern botanical guidebook are faces of Soviet leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Leonid Brezhnev. According to Raad, the collaged page belonged to a former Lebanese intelligence officer and botanist who assigned floral code names to world leaders during the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1991).

Better be watching the clouds_Plate 60

2000, printed 2017

Walid Raad

(Lebanese, b. 1967)

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