The photographer Taryn Simon's latest body of work uses flower arrangements as political commentary on key agreements that were signed in recent history

当艺术家塔琳·西蒙(TarynSimon)偶然看到阿道夫·希特勒(Adolf希特勒)签署协议的照片时，她被场景中间一个看似不协调的花环所打动。后来，她在1944年布雷顿森林会议的照片中注意到另一种插花方式-在美国举行的一次会议，成立了世界银行和国际货币基金组织。西蒙一遍又一遍地看到了这些男人们在附近用鲜花来签署改变世界的协议的一般形象。

把这个主题和19世纪的园艺书结合起来，西蒙制作了她的最新展览“文书工作和资本的意志”。为此，她重新安排了36种花的安排，这些安排涉及到布雷顿森林国家的签名。她与一位植物学家合作鉴定了这些花，并从荷兰Aalsmer举行的世界上最大的花卉拍卖会上进口了4000多株植物。每一种安排都是一个“不可能的花束”，这个概念是从17世纪荷兰静物中产生的，在这个概念中，由于季节或距离而无法在现实生活中共同存在的花朵，被描绘成一种地位和财富的展示。

Gagosian画廊总监路易丝·奈里(LouiseNeri)说，塔林有调查记者的本能和精力。“她的工作是揭露事实和历史不稳定的出发点。”

这些安排是以215厘米乘186厘米的版画呈现的，原始桌子和背景被提炼成三分之一的前景和三分之二的背景颜色块。展示在桃花心木框架模仿董事会的家具，并伴随着条约签署的嵌入描述，这些是西蒙迄今最大的单一图像。

此外，艺术家创作了她的第一个雕塑作品，这是为每一种布置设计了12个混凝土花压机，这些设备为照片所使用的花的干燥和压制的版本缝制在存档的赫巴纸上。
雕塑本身是双打的，在某种意义上说，它们可以被显示为打开的书或在封闭的、“按下”的版本。

它们还包括西蒙在选择较大照片之前所作安排的12张照片，以及对条约及其背景的描述。她在这里的意图指的是这样一个事实：我们最终不知道这些协议的哪些版本会持续下去-鲜花、照片、条约，甚至英语本身。

Struck by a photo she saw of Adolf Hitler signing a treaty surrounded by dignitaries with a seemingly incongruous floral centerpiece in the middle of the scene, Simon began extensive research to identify and recreate the flowers that appeared at other key events

An arrangement of tea roses, gerberas, hydrangeas and dendrobium represents the establishing of the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation in 2006. The agreement was created to conduct sharia-compliant trade finance in 57 member states, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Turkey, Yemen and Libya. Pictured: Agreement Establishing the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation, Al-Bayan Palace, Kuwait City, Kuwait, May 30, 2006

In 2014, Australian immigration minister Scott Morrison and Cambodian interior minister Sar Kheng signed an agreement to transfer Australian refugees from Nauru to Cambodia. Anthuriums, dendrobiums, mokara orchids and tea roses were present. Pictured: Memorandum of Understanding between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Government of Australia Relating to the Settlement of Refugees in Cambodia, Ministry of Interior, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, September 26, 2014

An arrangement of carnations symbolise the 1968 Bratislava Declaration, where representatives from the Bulgarian Communist Party, Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Polish United Workers’ Party, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia reaffirmed their commitment to Marxism-Leninism. The piece is in black and white to reflect the black and white nature of the source material. Pictured: Bratislava Declaration, Bratislava, Slovakia, August 3, 1968

In addition to being the largest single images Simon has created to date, the show also presents the artist's first sculptures: 12 concrete flower presses for each arrangement that house dried and pressed versions of the flowers used for the photographs, sewn on archival herbarium paper

A closer view of Simon's flower press sculptures which can either be displayed as open 'book', meant to be leafed through and observed, pictured right, or as a closed, 'pressed' version, pictured left

Each page in the sculpture book is one-of-a-kind. Pictured: a page showing pressed flowers, a photograph of the arrangement and accompanying text for the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation agreement

Simon worked with a botanist to make the physical specimens, while recreating each arrangement and photographing it specially each time to create a true edition of 12

keywords:Gagosian, Photography, New York exhibitions

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