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Andrea Chung

Mi love fi teach de foreigna dem fi chat yard style. But mi nah mek dem know how fi say "mi fi gallong back ah wuk" so nah bodda ask"

Description

Maker

Andrea Chung (American, b. 1978 in Newark, New Jersey)
Robert Franklin (1930–2012
b. in Long Island, New York), printer

Title

Mi love fi teach de foreigna dem fi chat yard style. But mi nah mek dem know how fi say "mi fi gallong back ah wuk" so nah bodda ask"
from the portfolio "Thongs: Experience the Luxury Included"

Year

2010

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Sheet: 56.2 x 38.1 cm (22 1/8 x 15 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

inscribed in graphite on recto LL: 8/22

Identification

Edition

8/22 and 8/15

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Object Number

2014.66.10.3

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Fantasy, Myth, Legend
Imagining the Past in Works on Paper since 1750
Dec 16, 2023 – Jun 02, 2024

Label copy

In this series of prints, Andrea Chung unpacks the notions of history and time in tourism advertisements for Jamaican resorts. Chung recontextualizes this language by combining phrases in Jamaican Patois and found photographic imagery. She also uses blind embossing, or stamping without ink, to create a raised text or image that makes visible the local workforce supporting the tourism industry.

Chung explains, “By manipulating photographs and tourism imagery, I investigate how The Land has been sold through picturesque fantasy and fantastic copy. I ask the viewer to question the ‘real,’ the seen, and unseen in order to navigate these conflicting narratives.”

–SM

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Andrea Chung (American, b. 1978 in Newark, New Jersey)
Robert Franklin (1930–2012
b. in Long Island, New York), printer
Kandice Fields, printer
Mi love fi teach de foreigna dem fi chat yard style. But mi nah mek dem know how fi say "mi fi gallong back ah wuk" so nah bodda ask"; from the portfolio "Thongs: Experience the Luxury Included", 2010
Color offset lithograph with embossing on paper
Sheet: 56.2 x 38.1 cm (22 1/8 x 15 inches)
Gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014.66.10.3

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