Allan Sekula

Jointly developed by M HKA and the KU Leuven, this long-term, interdisciplinary research project focuses on a specific, yet complex body of work; multifaceted and variably installable, unfinished and open-ended: Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013) by artist and theorist Allan Sekula (1951-2013). Informed by the research of the team members, the project continues to evolve in a succession of research outputs, such as this digital platform.

Allan Sekula. Collective Sisyphus

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(c)image: M HKA

Untitled (Poland Archive, nr. 36), 1980

Photography , 25.3 x 20.2 cm

ink, paper

September 30th 1980. POLES CALL STRIKE FOR FRIDAY (Lech Walesa, the Polish Union leader, has called on his members to hold a one hour strike this Friday, to protest at what is described as a government failure to honour its pledges) [as indicated on backside of photograph], black-and-white photograph, 25.3 x 20.2 cm. Date of purchase by Allan Sekula unknown. [AM/Keystone 3128/898875/6/7]

On the backside of the photograph:

September 30th 1980

POLES CALL STRIKE FOR FRIDAY

Lech Walesa, the Polish Union leader, has called on his members to hold a one hour strike this Friday, to protest at what is described as a government failure to honour its pledges.

AM/Keystone 3128/898875/6/7

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