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Landscape
2004

Medium
type C photographs

Measurements
(a-f) 304.0 × 1081.4 cm (overall)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Contemporary with the assistance of Ross Adler AC, S. Baillieu Myer AC, Philip Ross and Sophia Pavlovski-Ross and Joshua Chan, 2007

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
China

Edition
ed. 3/5

Inscription
(a) inscribed in pencil (in Chinese characters) on reverse l.l.: LIU Wei
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: Liuwei 3/5 2004
(b) inscribed in pencil (in Chinese characters) on reverse l.l.: LIU Wei
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: Liuwei 3/5 2004
(c) inscribed in pencil (in Chinese characters) on reverse l.l.: LIU Wei
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: Liuwei 3/5 2004
(d) inscribed in pencil (in Chinese characters) on reverse l.l.: LIU Wei
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: Liuwei 3/5 2004
(e) inscribed in pencil (in Chinese characters) on reverse l.l.: LIU Wei
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: Liuwei 3/5 2004
(f) inscribed in pencil (in Chinese characters) on reverse l.l.: LIU Wei
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: Liuwei 3/5 2004

Accession Number
2007.56.a-f

Department
International Photography

Physical description
Series of six photographs of mountain landscapes created using naked human bodies. (a) Landscape of human bottoms, bent over at the waist, with mosquitoes resting on hair. (b) Landscape of three human bottoms, bent over at the waist, with fly and mosquito perched on hair. (c) Landscape of human bottoms, bent over at the waist, with mosquitoes resting on hair. (d) Landscape of human bottoms, bent over at the waist, with mosquitoes resting on hair. (e) Landscape of human bottoms, bent over at the waist. One in foreground with mosquito, three distant bottoms above. (f) Landscape of human bottoms, bent over at the waist, with mosquitoes resting on hair.