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Appropriation 1
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<p>Michael Landy’s Market was an installation made by arranging typical market-stall stands, artificial grass and plastic bread-crates in a vast disused industrial space in south London. These stills are taken from a video piece called Appropriations, which was shown on three monitors around the space.</p><p>The video shows high street grocers setting up their stalls for the day, using the ubiquitous plastic crates ‘borrowed’ from bread manufacturers as platforms for their goods. Landy draws attention to this act of theft and re-use that has become part of an accepted daily ritual repeated throughout the world.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
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Appropriation 1
image: 290 × 380 mm
Lent from a private collection 2000
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<span class="text14">Michael Landy’s </span><span class="text13">Market</span><span class="text14"> was an</span><span class="text0"> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/installation-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Installation'"><span>installation</span></a> made by      arranging typical market-stall stands, artificial grass and </span><span class="text14">plastic bread-crates in a vast disused </span><span class="text0">industrial space in south London. These stills are taken from a      video piece called </span><span class="text13">Appropriations</span><span class="text14">, which was shown on</span><span class="text0"> three      monitors around the space. </span>
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<span class="text14">The video shows high street grocers </span><span class="text0">setting up their stalls for the day, using the ubiquitous plastic      crates ‘borrowed’ from bread manufacturers as platforms for      their goods. Landy draws attention to </span><span class="text14">this act      of theft and re-use that has</span><span class="text0"> become part of      an accepted daily ritual repeated throughout the world. </span>
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actions: processes and functions adults architecture carrying / holding crate emotions, concepts and ideas England features formal qualities London - non-specific man market objects people photographic places public and municipal shop street townscapes / man-made features trader trading and commercial UK countries and regions UK London vessels and containers window work and occupations