© John Stezaker
Currently not on view
Tabula Rasa VI,
2005
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Didactics
In Stezaker’s collages, appropriated images are given new meanings through elegant juxtapositions that almost always conceal and therefore alter the pictures’ original meanings. Stezaker’s source material is taken from books, magazines, promotional photographs, or historical postcards. Through his juxtaposed repurposings, Stezaker’s art calls into question the use of the photographic image. In this series, a publicity Hollywood film still overlaid with a blank white space—a tabula rasa—becomes an unsolvable narrative riddle ripe for our projections.
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2005
Europe, England