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david byrne and adelle lutz: 'the wedding party'
lipanjepuntin artecontemporanea until 31th january 2001 http://wwwlipanjepuntin.com david byrne © colin bell
we met david byrne in trieste on the 25th of november 2000 david byrne: 'this series of sculptures and photos had their beginning with voodoo. I was in miami a few years ago and caught the huge voodoo exhibition there.......in this show....there were some examples of wrapped votive objects- fetishes, as they used to be called.....although they were possibly only wrapped, I enjoyed the idea that they were dressed. I immediately thought to myself......'could ordinary objects be given a kind of dangerous lifelike aura by merely dressing them? what if objects that already were somewhat anthropomorphic-furniture, for example, were dressed in this way? ...I wondered for some time how to create the clothes for these objects, which I began acquiring at discount stores and flea markets and then I realized that the perfect person to collaborate with was a costumer......my wife........ I realized that instead of creating fetish objects, as I'd originally intended, we had created little people. a family in fact. the objects had become animated, as I'd intended, but in a completely different way that I had assumed rather than being contemporary votive objects they were caricatures of uncles aunts and other relatives....and when grouped together they looked like a motley group assembled for a wedding....I then began to photograph them not as shrine or altar pieces, but as relatives in familiar contexts. In their homes and gardens, with their possessions anf furniture. and, in keeping with the afro latin religious inspiration, I gave them all their names in spanish....... la bailarina © david byrne 1998 courtesy lipanjepuntin trieste el novio © david byrne 1998 courtesy lipanjepuntin trieste la novia © david byrne 1998 courtesy lipanjepuntin trieste el santo © david byrne 1998 courtesy lipanjepuntin trieste tio guillermo © david byrne 1998 courtesy lipanjepuntin trieste la madrasta © david byrne 1998 courtesy lipanjepuntin trieste
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