heather sheehan

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institutional I-V -1- 'being'
2017
self portrait, B&W medium format film photography
18 x 24 cm / 7" x 9"
Series of 5 images, Darkroom Baryta Print Edition of 5 + 2 A. P.

The institute was empty and she came to clean... Heather Sheehan stepped into the role of a cleaning woman at the Institute of Art History at Bonn University in Germany. With medium-format camera, Sheehan shot this series of self-portrait photographs on black and white film.

Copyright Heather Sheehan, Authors, Photographers and VG Bild-Kunst.

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