• Found not taken, Luanda
  • TitleFound not taken, Luanda
  • Author Edson Chagas  
  • Year 2009
  • Classification Photograph
  • Dimensions Height: 80 cm Width: 120 cm
  • Edition 3/3
  • Medium C-print
Description
The photograph shows an apparently abandoned shoe on a city street. Taken out of their context and photographed in relation to a carefully chosen background, the mundane items are turned into abstract icons that animate the city. Found Not Taken reflects the consumer behaviour of a society characterised by the waste it produces and by the constant loss of the value of things.
Exhibitions
2013, Luanda, Encyclopedic City, Palazzo Cini, Angolan Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; 2013, Edson Chagas, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia
Bibliography
Edson Chagas, Found Not Taken, text by Ana Balona de Oliveira, Kehrer Verlag, 2015