Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Week of April 25

Wednesday, April 27

Jill Magid is an American artist that was once involved with the Dutch Secret Service. In 2008, she created the work "I Will Burn Your Face" which was a wall mounted piece with 7mm neon transformers and wires. It was altered permanently in 2009 to reflect confiscations by the Dutch Secret Service. "To Burn a Face" is a phrase used to expose a source's identity. Jill Magid wrote down descriptions of agents she interviewed and then used these descriptions to "burn" them. The neon words are from her notebook in her handwriting.

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