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BARBARA BROUGHEL
Installation view of Opium Works, 1994-98
at Frederieke Taylor gallery, Fall 1999

 

With her OPIUM WORKS ( 1994 - '98 ) series, Barbara Broughel explored the history of the American opium trade with China and its exploitation of the East during the nineteenth century. Broughel's  sculptures of "typically" Chinese objects such as a poppy shaped umbrella, a Manchu court coat, an overscale opium pipe, a silk lined folding screen, a "head" counter and a china teaset evoke the longing for and fascination with objects imported from the exotic Orient.

 

 

Red Dragon

 

 

 

Hour glass

 

Wheelbarrow

 

 

      
Headcounter
 
 
 
       

       Opium Warehouse  Etching  (archive from British East India Company)

 

Courtesy Frederieke Taylor Gallery     //     www.frederieketaylorgallery.com

 

 

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