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100 pairs of army boots, mono-filament, metal grid, 700 x 700 cm
"A nearly deafening silence immediately strikes the viewer of Blain’s remarkably spartan installation. This soundlessness continues to resonate – and change – as one walks around her three-dimensionnal grid of strings and shoes, filling in its absences with haunting narratives and dark associations. Ominous connections between facelessness and force, blind obedience and inhuman strenght, a sense of belonging and one of being utterly lost gain clarity as one contemplates her austere memorial to war and its – often abstract – if all-too-real consequences." (David Pagel, Dominique Blain, Art Forum, 1993)
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Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal collection.
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