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Work Type:installation
Date of work:1999
Materials:medium: neon sign, books, videos

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:object, book, magazines, videos
Technique:assemblage
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
Luke Oxley uses a mass of material which may or may not carry promise and meaning. Only a neon sign Books, Mags, Videos surrounded by the raw material of its own subject rings clear, full of pornographic and/or literary promise. This installation obscures content with form and hints at the desire of all artists to be disseminated through these media.
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Source:From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.
Date of source:1999