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Chris Jordan is a Seattle-based photographer who quantifies consumption via images that reveal exactly how many products are bought or discarded in a given period of time, a minute, an hour, a day or a year. His photograph titled Plastic Bottles, for instance, depicts, as stated in its subtitle “two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.”
A brochure with texts by Lucy Lippard and Bill Jeffries is available at the exhibition. Copies of Jordan’s book Running the Numbers, an American Self-portrait, published by Prestel, are available for purchase.
Opening Reception: Saturday November 6, 2–5 pm
Lunchtime talks on the exhibition: Tuesday and Wednesday, November 9 and 10, 12:05 and 12:35. Thursday and Friday, 18 and 19, 12:05 and 12:35.
Running the Numbers is presented in collaboration with WINSOR GALLERY
FREE PARKING! November 6 only. A printout of the this page is your parking pass in any Visitor Lot at SFU (face up on dashboard or hand to parking attendant).
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Jet Trails (Detail), 2007. Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial jet flights in the United States every eight hours. Archival
Inkjet photograph, 60" x 96". Courtesy of Winsor Gallery.
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