2008
A text produced for a failed Tourist Guide based on ‘artistic tourism’ to the island of Cyprus
An existing text from Sir Samuel Baker was written in 1879, one year after British takeover of the Island, which assessed the islands’ ‘value’ for the British Empire. I intervened and re-wrote the text which referenced the same places we had both traveled too, Sir Samuel’s contributions in pink – the conventional colour on British maps to denote colonial territories
Biography
The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]