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Photo: Nathaniel Willson
Portable Monument - There's no place...
Photo: Nathaniel Willson

Portable Monument - There's no place...

Date2009-2012
Label TextThe starting point for this work by Seattle-based artist Victoria Haven was a handwritten card listing songs on a mixtape made by one of the artist’s friends in the 1980s. Haven enlarged and transferred this ephemeral memento—one both deeply personal and indicative of a broader pop cultural moment—onto a wall of her studio, which she salvaged when the building was demolished for redevelopment. The work is a monument in multiple senses: to a rapidly changing city, to an obsolete technology, and to a moment of music history experienced collectively and personally.
Object number2013.1
ProvenanceThe artist; [Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington]; purchased from gallery with funds from The New Foundation
Photo CreditPhoto: Nathaniel Willson
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Victoria Haven: Proposed Land Use Action in Elles: SAM – Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists, Oct. 6, 2012 - Feb. 17, 2013. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Sound Affect, Apr. 27, 2019 - Feb. 2, 2020.
Credit LinePurchased with funds from The New Foundation Seattle
Dimensions92 x 75 x 6 in. (233.7 x 190.5 x 15.2 cm)
MediumAcrylic paint, sheetrock, studs
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