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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Shanty Nucleus after Derrida
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Shanty Nucleus after Derrida

Artist Sergio Vega (American, born Argentina, 1959)
Date2006
MediumWood grid, filament, photographs on board
Dimensions144 x 12 ft. (365.8 x 365.8 cm)
ClassificationsCollages
Credit LineMuseum purchase, gift of John Beck and Municipal Bond Partners, Joseph Wittenstein, Managing Partner, by exchange. Partial gift of the artist.
Object number2007.13
On View
Not on view
DescriptionPhotographs are mounted on several Sentra boards that are suspended by filament from a wooded grid that measures 12' x 12'. The boards are yellow and are cut in various geometric, modernist shapes. The photographs are of shanties in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
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Sergio Vega
2002
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Andrea Robbins and Max Becher
2003-2005
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Los Carpinteros
2007
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Eudora Welty
Negative: 1939 Print: 1980
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Douglas Prince
2003
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Evon Streetman
1978
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Jerry Uelsmann
1992
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Abdel Qadr
1966
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Thomas Handforth
1927