‘Simon Starling displays artefacts or photographs of objects which, he has already decided, are museum exhibits. In fact, they are relics of another sort: a lost set of teeth, for example. That they were lost in the grounds of the Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld, during an exhibition of the work of Lothar Baumgarten may or may not bestow value on it. Can something be valuable by extension? Or is the set of values by which we judge art being set against closer, more human matters?’

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‘Simon Starling displays artefacts or photographs of objects which, he has already decided, are museum exhibits. In fact, they are relics of another sort: a lost set of teeth, for example. That they were lost in the grounds of the Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld, during an exhibition of the work of Lothar Baumgarten may or may not bestow value on it. Can something be valuable by extension? Or is the set of values by which we judge art being set against closer, more human matters?’

Full title: "Attendant's chair photographed at the Musee d'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris on the 19th August 1991 during an exhibition of the work of Gunther Forg."

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Full title: "Attendant's chair photographed at the Musee d'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris on the 19th August 1991 during an exhibition of the work of Gunther Forg."