Mimesis as Resistance
2013
Kader Attia
French, born 1970
Media and Performance
- Maker/Artist
- Attia, Kader
- Classification
- Installation
- Formatted Medium
- Video (color, sound; 2:18 min.) and cabinet of thirty-nine offset prints on paper, one silver gelatin print, four illustrated books, and three bird's nests
- Medium
- video, color, sound, min, cabinet, offset, prints, paper, silver, gelatin, print, illustrated, books, bird, nests
- Dimensions
- Dimensions variable. Component (Nest): 16 15/16 × 7 1/2 × 3 9/16" (43 × 19 × 9 cm) Component (Nest): 12 13/16 × 13 3/8 × 4 5/16" (32.5 × 34 × 11 cm) Component (Nest): 18 7/8 × 6 5/16 × 7 1/16" (48 × 16 × 18 cm) Sheet (2 Offset Prints): 6 5/16 × 9 13/16" (16 × 25 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 6 1/2 × 9 13/16" (16.5 × 25 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 6 11/16 × 9 13/16" (17 × 25 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 7 11/16 × 9 13/16" (19.5 × 25 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 7 5/16 × 9 7/16" (18.5 × 24 cm) Sheet (2 Offset Prints): 9 7/16 × 7 1/16" (24 × 18 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 9 9/16 × 7 1/4" (24.3 × 18.4 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 9 7/16 × 6 3/16" (24 × 15.7 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 9 5/8 × 6 11/16" (24.4 × 17 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 9 13/16 × 6 11/16" (25 × 17 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 9 7/16 × 7 1/4" (24 × 18.4 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 7 11/16 × 8 1/4" (19.5 × 21 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 8 1/4 × 11 13/16" (21 × 30 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 9 1/16 × 11" (23 × 28 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 10 5/8 × 7 1/2" (27 × 19 cm) Sheet (2 Offset Prints): 11 13/16 × 8 1/4" (30 × 21 cm) Sheet (2 Offset Prints): 9 5/8 × 12 1/16" (24.4 × 30.7 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 9 7/16 × 12 13/16" (24 × 32.6 cm) Sheet (2 Offset Prints ): 8 1/4 × 5 1/8" (21 × 13 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 6 1/4 × 9 13/16" (15.8 × 25 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 6 5/16 × 9 13/16" (16.1 × 24.9 cm) Sheet (2 Offset Prints): 9 13/16 × 6 5/16" (25 × 16 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 6 7/8 × 11 1/16" (17.5 × 28.1 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 8 1/16 × 10 5/8" (20.5 × 27 cm) Sheet ( Offset Print): 8 3/16 × 10 3/8" (20.8 × 26.4 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 3 7/16 × 2 5/16" (8.7 × 5.8 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 6 11/16 × 4 7/16" (17 × 11.3 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 5 5/8 × 3 5/8" (14.3 × 9.2 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 11 11/16 × 3 3/8" (29.7 × 8.5 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 11 1/4 × 7 1/4" (28.5 × 18.4 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 14 15/16 × 9 13/16" (38 × 25 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 15 15/16 × 12 5/8" (40.5 × 32 cm) Sheet (Offset Print (Framed)): 14 3/4 × 17 1/2" (37.5 × 44.5 cm) Sheet (Offset Print): 10 5/8 × 8 1/16" (27 × 20.5 cm) Sheet (Gelatin Silver Print): 10 1/16 × 8 1/16" (25.5 × 20.5 cm) Component (Book): 11 × 5 11/16 × 1 3/16" (28 × 14.5 × 3 cm) Component (Book): 10 1/4 × 8 1/4 × 1 3/16" (26 × 21 × 3 cm) Component (Book): 9 7/16 × 6 5/16 × 1 3/16" (24 × 16 × 3 cm) Component (Book): 12 5/8 × 11 5/16 × 1 3/16" (32 × 28.7 × 3 cm)
- Departments
- Media and Performance
- Accession Number
- 389.2018
- Credit Line
- Acquired through the generosity of Marlene Hess
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