Sameer Farooq /

Object Agent

Photographs and Booklet
Series of 20
16” x 20” (photographs), 8.5” x 5.5” (booklet)
www.museumoffoundobjects.com

By dramatically shifting the context where these objects lived (a dollar store), Object Agent aimed to challenge a value bias around what we choose to collect. I wished to champion everyday ephemera to define the culture and time within which we live. By using a specific photographic language pulled from tabletop photography, the work demonstrates the ability of context and the tactics of documentation to influence notions of value when representing objects.

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