Supply and Demand for Immortality, 2010—2011
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
Supply and Demand for Immortality, 2010—2011
Site-specific two-dimensional installation
Latex paint on museum façade
Installation view
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Overview
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’ practice is infused with a long-standing desire to make language visible. The artists approach the language of genres, professions and areas of specialisation as socially situated dialects, containing within them traces of values, perspectives and experiences of their speakers.
The works presented in the Sharjah Biennial explore how desire, belief and economy are intertwined. For Supply and Demand for Immortality they created a speculative measuring device, based on an economic model of supply and demand, to map contemporary attitudes towards immortality.
April 2011
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10
Artwork Images
Supply and Demand for Immortality
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
2010—2011
Site-specific two-dimensional installation, latex paint on museum façade
Installation view
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Supply and Demand for Immortality
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
2010—2011
Site-specific two-dimensional installation, latex paint on museum façade
Installation view
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Supply and Demand for Immortality
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
2010—2011
Site-specific two-dimensional installation, latex paint on museum façade
Installation view
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
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