- Artist
- Eugenio Dittborn born 1943
- Medium
- Oil paint, charcoal and screenprint on 6 fabrics
- Dimensions
- Image, each: 2100 × 1400 mm
displayed: 4200 × 4200 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Latin American Acquisitions Committee, with funds provided by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery 2004
- Reference
- T11828
Display caption
This large collage includes a combination of found texts and images relate to travel, particularly the idea of returning or attempting to return to a place of origin. It includes references to Jemmy Button, an aborigine from Tierra del Fuego who was bought for a few buttons by Captain Robert FitzRoy and brought to London in 1829 on his ship the Beagle. Another story relates to British sailor John Torrington, a member of the doomed Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, whose frozen body was rediscovered in the Arctic in 1984, 138 years after his death.
Gallery label, November 2007
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