Common ground : [25a bienal internacional de São Paulo em 2002 - Suiça = 25th international biennale of São Paulo 2002 - Switzerland]
Item
Gygi, Fabrice - Switzerland 1965. 2007. Common Ground : [25a Bienal Internacional De São Paulo Em 2002 - Suiça = 25th International Biennale of São Paulo 2002 - Switzerland]. Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries, Urban Books, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/urban-books/item/3048
- Title
- Common ground : [25a bienal internacional de São Paulo em 2002 - Suiça = 25th international biennale of São Paulo 2002 - Switzerland]
- Creator
- Gygi, Fabrice - Switzerland 1965
- Date
- 2008
- Description
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Title Description - Fabrice Gygi represented Switzerland in the 25th International Biennale of São Paulo in 2002, and made this artist's book to accompany his monumental installation there. The inside front and back covers of the book show sketches for the surveillance tower that he erected in the center of the Biennale Pavillion. After that, the connection between the book the sculptural project becomes more abstract. "Common Ground" collects photographs shot by the artist during a trip he made to Northern Canada in the winter of 1990-91. Immediately after the film was processed, he stacked the negatives in a press and drilled a hole through them. In the photographs printed from these negatives, the drill hole creates an aggressive and ominous black presence in the frigid landscapes they depict. The black and white images are intercut with pull out color photographs of Gygi's installation work, itself equally ominous in its evocation of pervasive urban "security" systems. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
Catalog record. - Call Number
- TR647 .G94 2002
- Link to Catalog Record
- https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b2980163~S2
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Publisher
- Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries
- Tags
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Artist supplied tags
Artist Keywords: -
Tags supplied by Dr. Jana Harper, of Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Sam Fox Keywords: Photography -
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library Keywords: Gygi, Fabrice, 1965- -- Exhibitions
Library Keywords: Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions
Gygi, Fabrice - Switzerland 1965. 2007. Common Ground : [25a Bienal Internacional De São Paulo Em 2002 - Suiça = 25th International Biennale of São Paulo 2002 - Switzerland]. Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries, Urban Books, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/urban-books/item/3048