part of a cycle of app. 80 digital prints on paper
each one 80 x 60 or 60 x 80 cm
edition 3+2AP
From left to right and from top to bottom On Vacation are: Simon Bolivar from New York; General İnönü from Istanbul; Bartolomeo Colleoni from Venice; Étienne Marcel from Paris; Alexander II from Sofia; Henri IV from Paris; Jeanne d'Arc from Paris; Marshall Zhukov from Moscow; Augustus II the Strong from Dresden; Alexander the Great from Thessaloniki.
The work is based on a simple gesture of digitally removing (and thus symbolically sending on vacation) the human figures from the photographic images of an endless number of public monuments from cities all over the world. It implies a personal involvement with globalization… By erasing the, predominantly male, figure of a political leader, historical character, military commander, or a royal subject, etc. the proposed idea is to liberate public space from political tensions even for a short while and in the context of a work of visual art.