Gaddafi killed by bullet in head. That’s for Lockerbie. And for Yvonne Fletcher. And IRA Semtex Victims. The Sun, October 21st, 2011, C-type print, 150 x 190 cm, Portable Monuments continues the artists’ preoccupation with Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication War Primer. Using a series of coloured blocks as a lexicon, Broomberg and Chanarin have developed a code that - like Brecht’s poems - has become a methodology for interrogating and deconstructing photographic press images. Their code has evolved through a series of workshops and is designed to function as a pedagogic tool. Each workshop is a collaborative effort to refine the code. The assemblages shown here are the results of these debates.  Portable Monuments : ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN

Gaddafi killed by bullet in head. That’s for Lockerbie. And for Yvonne Fletcher. And IRA Semtex Victims. The Sun, October 21st, 2011, C-type print, 150 x 190 cm,

Portable Monuments continues the artists’ preoccupation with Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication War Primer.

Using a series of coloured blocks as a lexicon, Broomberg and Chanarin have developed a code that - like Brecht’s poems - has become a methodology for interrogating and deconstructing photographic press images.

Their code has evolved through a series of workshops and is designed to function as a pedagogic tool. Each workshop is a collaborative effort to refine the code. The assemblages shown here are the results of these debates.

 Portable Monuments : ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN

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