Traveling Together (detail), 2009, digital photo tapestries

Deadpan Exchange is a series of exhibitions in which artists respond to artworks produced for previous Deadpan Exchange exhibitions. Part IV: of the series was curated by Jonn Herschend (USA), and Heidi Hove (DK) and presented at K2 in Izmir, Turkey in Spring 2009.

For Deadpan VI, I responded to a photo that Jonn Herschend had taken of Jens Axel Beck (DK) installing his work for Deadpan III in San Francisco. Although I had attended the exhibition, Jens and I had not met. The impetus behind the work was to find a way fashionable way to travel together to Izmir, despite the physical distance that separated us. The images (above) were digitally printed onto large tapestries, like magic carpets.

Pictured: one of two tapestries; Photo credit: Jonn Herschend.

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