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Gulf Distortions

Soledad Salamé, Goya-Girl Press, Inc.

Gulf Distortions

2010

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Soledad Salamé, Goya-Girl Press, Inc.

Gulf Distortions

2010

Physical Qualities Color screenprint on mylar, Sheet: 572 x 826 mm. (22 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Alice and Franklin Cooley Fund and partial gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number 2011.154.4
Baltimore-based artist Soledad Salamé visited the Venice and Grand Isle areas of Louisiana following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill to experience firsthand the effects of the largest-known crude oil extraction breach. She created these prints by faxing photographs of the region to herself and then screenprinting the digitally processed files. The resulting glitches in the image suggest a message from the past transmitted by decades of environmentalists warning those in power of such dangers. The shimmering within the prints comes from a high-tech ink called “interference pigment,” whose reflective quality mirrors viewers in the image of these calamities. Salamé warns us that the conditions of catastrophe are replicating quickly on a global scale, and time is running short to take action.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2011; Goya-Girl Press
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Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "A/P 1/5"; lower center in graphite: "Gulf Distortions IV"; lower left in graphite: "Soledad Salame 2011"

Artist

Soledad Salamé

1954-01-01 00:00:00

born Santiago, Chile 1954
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Goya-Girl Press, Inc.

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