Comprehensive Claims Settlement Agreement Between Libya and the United States. Tripoli, Libya, August 14, 2008
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Taryn Simon takes inspiration from the context of major political meetings and draws attention to the many symbols of decorum and diplomacy they employ by focusing on the quiet presence of decorative floral arrangements. Simon indexes, re-creates, photographs, and preserves these centerpieces, linking the grand theatrics of political deal-making and the globalization of world economies to the intricacies of botany and horticulture. In the delicate stack of pages that forms part of the sculptural steel monolith, Simon brings together the natural and the mechanical, the ephemeral and the eternal, in a precarious state of balance.
Caption
Taryn Simon (American, born 1975). Comprehensive Claims Settlement Agreement Between Libya and the United States. Tripoli, Libya, August 14, 2008, 2015. Inkjet print, herbarium paper, mahogany wood frame, frame: 85 × 73 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (215.9 × 186.1 × 7.0 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist and Gagosian Gallery, 2021.6. © Taryn Simon. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Collection
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Title
Comprehensive Claims Settlement Agreement Between Libya and the United States. Tripoli, Libya, August 14, 2008
Date
2015
Medium
Inkjet print, herbarium paper, mahogany wood frame
Classification
Dimensions
frame: 85 × 73 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (215.9 × 186.1 × 7.0 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist and Gagosian Gallery
Accession Number
2021.6
Rights
© Taryn Simon
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