Dimensions: support: 680 x 880 mm frame: 1125 x 935 x 35mm
Copyright: © Paul Graham; courtesy Pace and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Paul Graham’s photograph, *Republican Coloured Kerbstones, Crumlin Road, Belfast*. It feels incredibly bleak, almost like a stage set. What’s your take on this image? Curator: The ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland weren't just about violence; they were deeply embedded in everyday spaces. How does Graham’s seemingly neutral, almost banal image engage with the politics of identity and division in Belfast? Editor: So, the kerbstones are a signifier? Curator: Precisely. They become a visual marker of territory, a subtle assertion of identity in a conflict zone. The mundane becomes politically charged. Editor: That gives me a whole new perspective. Thanks! Curator: Indeed, it reveals how art reflects and shapes our understanding of social and political realities.
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Republican Coloured Kerbstones, Crumlin Road, Belfast is a colour photograph on paper. The image was shot by the artist in Northern Ireland in the mid-1980s as part of a group of work collectively entitled Troubled Land. It was subsequently reprinted by the artist in the mid-1990s in an edition of ten, plus two artist’s proofs, on Fuji paper and previous versions were destroyed, as he explained in a letter of July 2007 to his London gallerist Anthony Reynolds:
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