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Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death
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Single-channel digital video color sound 7 min. 25 sec.
Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Gift of Continental Group by exchange 2017
Title: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death
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Single-channel digital video color sound 7 min.
25 sec.
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