Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Saturday, 20 July 2013
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Work from Portable Monuments
“Portable Monuments continues the artists’ preoccupation with Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication War Primer. Using a series of coloured blocks as a lexicon, Broomberg and Chanarin have developed a code that – like Brecht’s poems – has become a methodology for interrogating and deconstructing photographic press images. Their code has evolved through a series of workshops and is designed to function as a pedagogic tool. Each workshop is a collaborative effort to refine the code. The assemblages shown here are the results of these debates.” –Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin