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Jill Magid : Authority to Remove

10 Sep 2009-3 Jan 2010

Tate Modern
London SE1 9TG

Overview

American artist Jill Magid's work is deeply ingrained in her lived experience, exploring and blurring the boundaries between art and life. Through her performance-based practice, Magid seeks intimate relations with structures of authority, the resulting narratives often taking the form of a love story. Authority to Remove, a one-off installation at Tate Modern, offers the viewer a unique opportunity to experience the final chapter of an epic tale. The exhibition includes the neon sculpture I Can Burn Your Face 2008, for which Magid appropriates a slang expression used among spies as a threat to expose another agent's identity.