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Mapa-mundi BR (postal) 2007

Accession No.
2008.356
Date Created
2007
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary International Art
Dimensions A
65 postcards: 10 x 15cm (each); five shelves: 2 x 250 x 5cm (each); 90 x 250 x 5cm (installed)
Edition
ed. 4/6
Media Category
Installation
Medium
Postcards and wooden shelves
Place Created
throughout Brazil
Credit Line
Purchased 2008 with funds from the Bequest of Grace Davies and Nell Davies through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

With this work, Rivane Neuenschwander sets out to create a map of the world without leaving the borders of Brazil, photographing buildings named after other places. The images have been printed as postcards that visitors may take and post to yet another location, circulating the work to a potentially global audience in the process.  

Mapa-mundi BR (postal) draws on Neuenschwander’s interest in language and the legacies of conceptual art. The work’s serial presentation, and the artist’s use of the international mail network to disseminate it, also connects with a ‘proto-globalism’ that characterised the mail–art networks of Fluxus art in the 1960s and 70s.
 

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Rebecca Baumann's Untitled Cascade 2012, installed for 'Everyday Magic', September 2013 / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Rebecca Baumann

‘Everyday Magic’

Sep 2013 - Mar 2014

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