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Sondra Perry: A Terrible Thing

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Sondra Perry: A Terrible Thing explores the transformation of a random space into a place laden with history and significance. The installation artist Sondra Perry investigates Euclid Street in Cleveland through video, online images, and digital representation techniques. Her work uncovers the intertwined histories of race and gender politics, offering a layered archaeological study of identity shaped by a city's changing social fabric.
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This book is suited for readers interested in contemporary art, installation art, and social history, particularly those fascinated by issues of race, gender, and urban identity.

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What turns a random space into a place? What inscribes history into it, or lends it significance? These questions occupy the installation artist Sondra Perry in her current piece, A Terrible Thing, for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland.

On Euclid Street in the heart of Cleveland, Perry carries out a kind of archaeological study of the street's history using video, pictures found online, and digital methods of representation. In doing so, she relates the changing infrastructure of race representation on the street and its gender-political effect in everyday use to each other in order to negotiate issues of identityβ€”of a city, a society, and of individuals.

This work became a prism of times and perspectives that can now be imagined with the help of this publication.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775746366

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 January 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 234.0mm

Height: 295.0mm

Weight: 600g

Pages: 136

About the Author

SONDRA PERRY (*1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is known for her computer-generated videos, installations, and performances. Her works examine questions of identity and family history, as well as of technology.

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