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Work Type:installation
Date of work:1998
Materials:medium: mixed media

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:religion, objects, table, animals, city
Technique:assemblage
Description:
A tableaux of delicate and small objects, placed specifically and deliberately in relation to each other by Ian Kiaer, creates a poignant context. Somehow the strange combination of spatial arrangement and implied narrative is a reminder of a biblical scene, almost forgotten or only seasonally-glimpsed through images of the nativity.
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Source:From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.
Date of source:1999