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拍品專文
These five large drawings, vibrantly produced in marker pen by Aleksandra Mir and a team of assistants, are part of a larger series of 200: each depicts the front page of an edition of the New York Post or the New York Daily News between the years 1986 and 2000, with these five telling the story of the 1987 Wall Street crash. At the show’s first exhibition, Mir and her team carried out the drawing in the gallery itself, writing the ‘headlines’ to be hung the next day while visitors milled around them taking in the previous day’s work. As Mir said about the show, ‘we produced art at a schedule more akin to a news agency than to that of an artist’s studio.’ The lively, almost cartoonish calligraphy of the drawings reflects the energetic sensationalism of the original tabloid newspapers, but they also draw on Mir’s background writing and distributing fanzines around New York. Using these DIY techniques to painstakingly recreate these stories, each one familiar to the New Yorkers of Mir’s generation, the artist draws our attention not only to the shared cultural memory cultivated by the media, but at the same time reminds us of the vitality of the processes of human collaboration that lie behind these memories.