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Apr 23, 2018
Better be watching the clouds_Plate 325
Better be watching the clouds_Plate 325
2000/2017
Walid Raad
(Lebanese, b. 1967)
Pigmented inkjet print mounted to Dibond
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.)
Weight: 1
Alma Kroeger Fund 2017.195
© Walid Raad
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Walid Raad uses storytelling and surreal images to pose questions about political history and what is true. Here, an oak tree in a Middle Eastern botanical guidebook sprouts the face of US President Ronald Reagan. 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).
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