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Moth (Falter II) –
what does Gustave Courbet's painting The Wave has to do with cotton?
Legend

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Media:
 

  1. 7 laser copies
    Photographs, South West Coast of India, 2013
    Research
    Backlit with LED
    Dimension: Each 40cm x 22,5cm
     
  2. 1 laser copy
    Photographs, southwest coast of India, 2013
    Research
    Backlit with LED
    Dimension: 60cm x 35,75cm
     
  3. Array of objects, Wave (variant I and II)
    (with reference to Gustave Courbets The Wave, 1870)
    Ceramics, stools, roof battens, 2021
    Dimension: variable
     
  4. 4 laser copies
    Research
    photographs from the archive of the municipality of Winterthur,
    Volkart collection (Hamilton Studio, Bombay)
     
    Legend of the photographs:
     
    1) Dep. 42/1569
    3. Amraoti Office, 1957, District Agent, R. Umbricht, Engineer D.V. Sahasrabudi

    2) Dep. 42/1583.1-21, VOL-45-006-2006
    9. Khamgaon, Kapas being carried to V.B. ginning factory (detail)

    3) Dep. 42/1569
    6. Amraoti Kapas market. Awaiting opening of the rates, 1957

    4) Dep. 42/1551 14.
    Das Verwiegen der B‘wolle auf dem Bombay Markte
    (Weighing of cotton, bombay market)

    Dimension: Each 30cm x 22,5cm
     
  5. Curtain
    2021
    Cotton
    Dimension: 2x (approx. 7.5m x 5.4m, folded) or 216m2, stretched
     
  6. Letter draft
    2021
     
  7. Open laid ditch: 1m width, approx. 12m length