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“Play at Your Own” is the title of the exhibition by US-American-Canadian artist Lynne Cohen (1944–2014). The b/w photographs, taken between 1977 and 1991, show deserted rooms. Nothing is staged. The artist photographed the rooms as she found them: a collection of cardboard dummies for shooting practice in a military facility, neatly sorted by size; the cabin of a Hercules bomber, reconstructed in a military training center; a shooting range with animal dummies; sacks piled up in a paintball facility.
At first glance, these photographs appear strange, spooky, even threatening. However, they are not based solely on the artist’s sociological or psychological interests, but are equally characterized by a subtle and pointed sense of humor. “Play at Your Own,” the lettering stuck on the wall behind the paintball equipment bags, is thus symptomatic of the photographs of authoritarian institutions on display, as well as the humorous response to them: “to play on own risk.”
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“Play at Your Own” is the title of the exhibition by US-American-Canadian artist Lynne Cohen (1944–2014). The b/w photographs, taken between 1977 and 1991, show deserted rooms. Nothing is staged. The artist photographed the rooms as she found them: a collection of cardboard dummies for shooting practice in a military facility, neatly sorted by size; the cabin of a Hercules bomber, reconstructed in a military training center; a shooting range with animal dummies; sacks piled up in a paintball facility.
At first glance, these photographs appear strange, spooky, even threatening. However, they are not based solely on the artist’s sociological or psychological interests, but are equally characterized by a subtle and pointed sense of humor. “Play at Your Own,” the lettering stuck on the wall behind the paintball equipment bags, is thus symptomatic of the photographs of authoritarian institutions on display, as well as the humorous response to them: “to play on own risk.”
Lynne Cohen is one…
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