Maarten Vanden Eynde - Industrial Evolution - MSSNDCLRCQ 2007

'Industrial Evolution' is a collection of 100 items that come from the twenty remaining manufacturing companies in Eastside, Birmingham, the last vestiges of manufacturing industry in the city. The objects are collected in pairs, referencing Noah’s Ark as well as their mass-producibility. Yet when ‘portrait’ photos are taken of the pairs, tiny differences in size, colour and form become apparent, and they appear as two similar but distinct individuals. This discrepancy can be understood as the failure of the Industrial Revolution, as it is physically impossible to clone or mass-produce an object to the nanometre.
Contributions by Richard Wentworth, Chris Upton.

272p - EN - 25x21cm - softcover - good condition