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About the Work

The installation consisted of an enormous enlargement of a photograph taken from the front page of The New York Times, dated Sunday, January 28th 1973, regarding the so-called Vietnam Peace Treaty being signed in Paris. This enlargement was shown at The Gallery, 65a Lisson Street, London NW1, in September of that year. The photograph was cut up and arranged so that the Vietcong and North Vietnamese sat in the northern half of the gallery and the South Vietnamese and the Americans sat in the southern half. In the installation, the newspaper from which the enlargement was taken was placed on the west wall facing the windows. Each wall was then labelled accordingly; View of the North, View of the South, View of the East, View of the West with a copy of the New York Times above it.
In 2010, the Ikon Gallery Birmingham exhibited a full-scale reconstruction of 'An Indo-Chinese Pun-Sculpture' as part of their survey exhibition on the art of the 1970s entitled 'This Could Happen to You'.