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    At the ICA Watershed, found objects are poetic and political

    On entering “Revival: Supplies and Monumental Sorts,” now on view at the ICA Watershed, a customer is confronted with two very huge, quite attractive items of artwork. A person is a 48-foot-lengthy set up by Jamaican-born artist Ebony G. Patterson who has developed luxuriant paper collages filled with colourful blossoms, blades of grass and blue and purple flittering monarch butterflies. At first glance, it is simply a dazzlingly verdant yard that speaks to overgrown summertime yard opulence. In the identical space, at the far end of the gallery, hangs a luminous shimmering get the job done entitled “Area B” (2007) by renowned Ghanian sculptor El Anatsui. His glittering tapestry is…

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