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Wallpaper sample

Rees, Marc
Wallpaper sample
Image: By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
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Piece of flock wallpaper created by artist Marc Rees for multi media artwork installation Shed*light, first installed at St Fagans: National History Museum (as it was then known) in 2005.

“In Shed*light artist Marc Rees constructed a replica shed for strong dynamite in the Swansea Valley that was the site of his first sexual encounter. The original is a brick structure with a heavy concrete roof. The interior and exterior of this replica shed was covered with specially designed wallpaper that emulates the ivy that covered the original shed but is also embedded with subtle male erotica that echoes the rites of passage experience within the building’s history” (Marc Rees in 2009).


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

F2022.46

Creation/Production

Rees, Marc
Role: Artist
Period: 2005

Measurements

Length (mm): 954
Width (mm): 684

Material

Paper
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