Human problems /

By:

Upritchard, Francis, 1976-

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9789086900305
9086900305

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LOC classification:

NB1108.U67 A4 2006

Summary: Francis Upritchard (1976 New Zealand) lives and works in London These are the fragments Francis Upritchard has shored against her ruins. Thrift store pots have been remade as canopic urns, ancient Egyptian repositories for the organs of the dead. A gift from a relative, an unwanted wedding present or a memory of a day out, even the tackiest ornament once played a small symbolic function in someone's life. Now they have been detourned to reveal the underlying purpose of all that frantic personalising and decorating of domestic space, the fabrication of memories to set against death. We face the terror of annihilation armed only with nick-nacks, handicrafts and souvenirs. Novelist Hari Kunzru (The Impressionist, Transmission) has contributed an introductory text masquerading as the notebook of one John Henry Deans, a would-be anthropologist who is slowly losing his mind.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific	NZ & Pacific	NZ&P NB 1108 UPR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0007383

Francis Upritchard (1976 New Zealand) lives and works in London These are the fragments Francis Upritchard has shored against her ruins. Thrift store pots have been remade as canopic urns, ancient Egyptian repositories for the organs of the dead. A gift from a relative, an unwanted wedding present or a memory of a day out, even the tackiest ornament once played a small symbolic function in someone's life. Now they have been detourned to reveal the underlying purpose of all that frantic personalising and decorating of domestic space, the fabrication of memories to set against death. We face the terror of annihilation armed only with nick-nacks, handicrafts and souvenirs. Novelist Hari Kunzru (The Impressionist, Transmission) has contributed an introductory text masquerading as the notebook of one John Henry Deans, a would-be anthropologist who is slowly losing his mind.