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A Small Band’ was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.

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My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, ‘The only artists I’ve ever heard of are dead.’ It just wasn’t in her experience… I don’t think she had a sense that one could be an artist, because there wasn’t anyone in my family who had done that.

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April 29, 2024

My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, ‘The only artists I’ve ever heard of are dead.’ It just wasn’t in her experience… I don’t think she had a sense that one could be an artist, because there wasn’t anyone in my family who had done that.

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