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Work Type:video
Date of work:2002
Materials:medium: video

Measurements:duration: 2:22 min

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:roadworks, workman, voyeurism
Technique:video
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
Selectors’ comments:’ (…) Something has struck the woman with the bags with such force that she can do nothing but stand and take it in. Hercules Beach! A broke-up crossing in the back of Waterloo, builder’s sand, protective railings, traffic. (…) What we call everyday is a tidy veil we draw over the world to deny that we have anything to do with it being the way it is; that’s what the lady on Hercules Beach has seen. (…)’
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Source:J.J. Charlesworth, Cerith Wyn Evans, Hayley Newman and Rebecca Warren. “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003”, exhibition catalogue, Coventry, 2003.
Date of source:2003
Description:
Video film of workmen on working on roadworks with a woman in a red coat stopped dead and watching them. Soundtrack live recording of a “garage” or punk band.
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