Sam Durant - 2022

They Tried To Bury Us. They Didn't Know We Were Seeds

The proceeds of this poster went to support two civil society groups based in Berlin opposing the war on Ukraine, fighting the Russian invasion and helping refugees. The work was created to support the Ukrainian’s who are the victims of the war and alsoshow solidarity with the Russian dissidents fighting Putin’s regime. ​

Sam Durant is a contemporary American artist whose work addresses cultural and political issues through a variety of media. Often controversial, Durant, like hiscontemporary Jimmie Durham, references the genocide of Native Americans, the civil-rights movement, and the history of protest. “I think history is not about the past, it’s about the present. In that context, this country has not dealt with history at all,” heexplained. “It’s interesting to compare it to Germany, for instance, where everywhereyou go, there are monuments, memorials, markers to the Holocaust. It’s taught. It’sintegral to the curriculum.” Born in 1961 in Seattle, WA, he received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art before going on to earn his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Inspired by Robert Smithson, Durant began producing worksdealing with American history during the early 1990s. In 2017, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis unveiled Durant’s sculptural installation Scaffold, to the public. Meant as a critical representation of the U.S. government’s executions of abolitionists, anarchists, and the slaughter of 36 Dakota tribesmen over the centuries. The work caused a public outrage against both the museum and the artist and was taken down shortlythereafter. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Today, Durant’sworks are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, among others.

Artist

Sam Durant

Year

2022

Materials

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Size

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Edition

edition of 100, printed in various colors​. signed and numbered by the artist

Gallery

courtesy of ov project

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