Not on display
- Artist
- Michael Landy born 1963
- Medium
- Photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 290 × 380 mm
- Collection
- Lent from a private collection 2000
On long term loan - Reference
- L02300
Display caption
Michael Landy’s Market was an installation made by arranging typical market-stall stands, artificial grass and plastic bread-crates in a vast disused industrial space in south London. These stills are taken from a video piece called Appropriations, which was shown on three monitors around the space.
The video shows high street grocers setting up their stalls for the day, using the ubiquitous plastic crates ‘borrowed’ from bread manufacturers as platforms for their goods. Landy draws attention to this act of theft and re-use that has become part of an accepted daily ritual repeated throughout the world.
Gallery label, August 2004
Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you.
Explore
- architecture(41,241)
- public and municipal(2,386)
- townscapes / man-made features(21,646)
-
- street(1,622)
- formal qualities(12,565)
-
- photographic(4,742)
- vessels and containers(2,146)
-
- crate(27)
- actions: processes and functions(2,147)
-
- carrying / holding(858)
- man(10,372)
- UK countries and regions(24,402)
-
- England(19,249)
- London - non-specific(3,642)
- trading and commercial(1,158)
-
- trader(245)
You might like
-
Michael Landy Appropriation 2
1990 -
Michael Landy Herb Robert
2002 -
Michael Landy Shepherd’s Purse 2
2002 -
Michael Landy Shepherd’s Purse 4
2002 -
Michael Landy Shepherd’s Purse 5
2002 -
Michael Landy Cor! What a Bargain!
1992 -
Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Soliloquy I
1998 -
Michael Landy Annual Wall Rocket
2002 -
Michael Landy Common Groundsel
2002 -
Michael Landy Shepherd’s Purse
2002 -
Michael Landy Smooth Hawks Beard
2002 -
Michael Landy Common Groundsel 2
2002 -
Michael Landy Common Toad Flax
2002 -
Michael Landy Creeping Buttercup
2002 -
Michael Landy Thale Cress
2002