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Nina Katchadourian
Installation image of Rock Family Tree, 1998
Portrait-style photographs of various rocks on Katchadourian's family's summer property in Finland, which the artist then arranged into a family tree structure. On one side, the rocks grow increasingly proximious to human presence and even turn into things like benches; on the other, the rocks grow increasingly distant, "loner rocks" who leave land behind and head out to sea.
30 photographs, each 4 x 6 inches, in handmade frames with wooden connecting network
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Nina Katchadourian
Handheld Subway, 1996
C-print
20 x 15 inches unframed
21 x 16 inches framedMORE about this artworkThis work is a dissected paper map of the New York subway system. Katchadourian made this at the same time she was collecting a lot of loose audio tape found on the streets of New York (see Songs of the Islands). This image renders the subway network into something that looks like just another piece of tangled trash on the ground.
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Nina Katchadourian
Installation view, Paranormal Postcards, 2001 and ongoing
Mounted postcards, red sewing thread, red graphic tape on wall
MORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998.
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Nina Katchadourian
Installation view, Paranormal Postcards, 2001 and ongoing
Mounted postcards, red sewing thread, red graphic tape on wall
MORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998.
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Nina Katchadourian
Mick Jagger, 1976, and Little Richard and Bill Haley, 1956 (from the Paranormal Postcard Series), 2004
Postcards and thread
4 1/8 x 6 inches each unframed
13 x 10 inches framedMORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998.
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Nina Katchadourian
Raft of the Medusa (from the Paranormal Postcard Series), 2004
Postcard and thread
4 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches unframed
6 1/8 x 8 inches framed
MORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998.
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Nina Katchadourian
Bull Moose (from the Paranormal Postcard Series), 2002
Postcard and thread
4 x 5 3/4 inches unframed
6 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches framed
MORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998. -
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Nina Katchadourian
Giotto's St. Francis (from the Paranormal Postcard Series), 2004
Postcard and thread
5 7/8 x 4 1/8 inches unframed
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches framedMORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998.
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Nina Katchadourian
Goethe (from the Paranormal Postcard Series), 2004
Postcard and thread
4 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches unframed
6 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches framedMORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998.
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Nina Katchadourian
Guardian Angel (from the Paranormal Postcard Series), 2004
Postcard and thread
5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches unframed
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches framedMORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998.
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Nina Katchadourian
Mictlantechtli (from the Paranormal Postcard Series), 2004
Postcard and thread
5 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches unframed
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches framed
MORE about this artworkAn ongoing project, at present consisting of over 200 postcards, where various elements in the image are connected by stitching through the card with red sewing thread. The cards are then grouped, and the groups are then connected via an elaborate network of dotted red lines made of graphic tape applied to the wall. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. As with many of my map works and chart pieces, the project seems to suggest some underlying coherent research or guiding principal, but the piece ultimately speaks more about taxonomy itself.
Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where it is on view so that people can recognize a local point of entry. This project began as a response to a long layover with a postcard purchase from a gift shop in the Olso airport in 1998.
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Nina Katchadourian
Finland's Longest Road, 2000
Paper map fragment in glass petri dish
3/4 x 6 x 6 inches
MORE about this artworkWorking with an atlas of Finland, Katchadourian cut out the entire length of highway E75, which runs from Helsinki in the south to Utsjoki in the north. This long paper strip was coiled up and placed in a petri dish.
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Nina Katchadourian
Coastal Merger, 1993
Reconstructed paper map
15 x 30 inches
MORE about this artworkKatchadourian was born in California, moved to the east coast for college, went back to the west coast for graduate school, and now lives on the east coast again. This map reflects the artist's bicoastal experience of this country.
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Nina Katchadourian
Japan from the series Geographic Pathologies, 1996
With the series Geographic Pathologies, Katchadourian experiments with connections between geography and anatomy.
Reconstructed paper maps
13 ¼ x 11 ¾ inches unframed
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Nina Katchadourian
Italy from the series Geographic Pathologies, 1996
With the series Geographic Pathologies, Katchadourian experiments with connections between geography and anatomy.
Reconstructed paper map
13 ¼ x 9 inches unframed
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Nina Katchadourian
India from the series Geographic Pathologies, 1996
With the series Geographic Pathologies, Katchadourian experiments with connections between geography and anatomy.
Reassembled paper map
13 ¼ x 9 inches unframed
15 ¾ x 11 1/8 inches framed