Photo Until It Becomes Marble, 2018

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01 Installation View, PRAKSIS, Oslo
02 Installation Detail. Rest of posters on cellophane

Hang a photo you like.
Let visitors cut out their favorite parts and take them.
For Instance, if the visitor likes red, let him take all the red parts.
Ask many visitors to cut out their favorite part until the whole thing is gone

Intervention,
Photo until it becomes marble
Yoko Ono 1961 summer

03 Installation Detail. Posters on tires
04 Installation View at Fellesverkstedet, Oslo

Along with granite and steel, marble is one of the most commonly used materials in the construction of monuments. The aim is for the monument to remain “standing” for as long as possible. That is why so many monuments accumulate in cities. They have no expiration date and only disappear if they are stolen or if the political ideal they were intended to represent is no longer shared.
Monuments should be temporary, or made of materials that are less resistant to the passage of time. A monument could represent something for an hour, for example. Its photographic documentation would ensure that its memory would last forever.
Photography has become marble.

05 Installation Detail. cellophane on construction fence
06 The Monumental Temporal opening at Fellesverkstedet, Oslo
Photo Credits 01 — 06: Mathew Lacosse