Walid Raad

Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut) _ Plate 064
2010

A triptych of photographs showing urban decay and neglect. The left image features a dilapidated modernist building overgrown with vegetation. The center image depicts a concrete wall with a makeshift wooden ladder leading down to a litter-strewn beach and a polluted waterway. The right image shows a close-up of a brightly colored object amidst rubble. Below the images are detailed captions and annotations.
A triptych of photographs showing urban decay and neglect. The left image features a dilapidated modernist building overgrown with vegetation. The center image depicts a concrete wall with a makeshift wooden ladder leading down to a litter-strewn beach and a polluted waterway. The right image shows a close-up of a brightly colored object amidst rubble. Below the images are detailed captions and annotations.

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Date
2010

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Inkjet print

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 43 1/2 × 73 3/8in. (110.5 × 186.4 cm) Image (sight, irregular): 39 3/4 × 68 1/2in. (101 × 174 cm)

Accession number
2011.78

Edition
3/7 | 2 APs

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
©Walid Raad. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

API
artworks/38988

Walid Raad
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