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Pastorale

Wood and canvas tent lined with toile de Jouy. Two chromed mirror stands, engraved glass, 2003.

Sharon Kivland's 'Pastorale' involves a small campaign tent lined in toile de Jouy standing at the edge of the Meadow Gallery as on an outpost to guard the frontier between the reality of the land and an absurd 'other world', full of pastoral delights and convenient cultural clichés about nature. Two amorous peasants taken from the toile have also been engraved onto glass viewing plates, reminiscent of the Claude glass used in the eighteenth century to enhance the landscape