MONOCULTURE | A Recent History

This work was made for an exhibition at Galeria Modulo, in Lisbon, where Durham used for each object a quote from the book The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, by José Saramago. Read Durham's story about it here.

The text on the artwork was written - on Saramago's request - in Portuguese, and reads: "Acha que minto, Não, que idéia, nós não mentimos, quando é preciso limitamo-nos a usar as palavras que mentem." [Do you say I am lying? Certainly not, we have never lied to each other; when precision limits us, we use words to lie for us]