Bad Press: dissident ironing
Diller + Scofidio; Scofidio, Ricardo; Diller, Elizabeth
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Date
1993-1996Description
Installation piece; dimensions vary.18 white shirts are ironed into varied shapes and displayed on ironing boards. A thin line of text, taken from a 1950's manual on how to press shirts for packaging, ran around the room at the same height as the top of the ironing boards. full view, man's torso; white shirt; arm's akimbo.
Subject
Satire, Housewives, Laundry, Postmodernism, Industrial efficiency, Wit and humor, Irony, Sculpture, American --20th century
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