ANTI-MONUMENTS
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Is a large photo installation from hundreds of 6x7 negatives, taken while re-staging the paths designated by King Louis XIV as his official diplomatic garden tours, called "the manner for viewing the gardens of Versailles." I've been performing these re-staging walks through and around these gardens making photographs there since January 2000, when I read that a huge storm had destroyed a large portion of the gardens. Initially, I went looking for the famed Labyrinth of Versailles, only to find that it had been destroyed by Louis XVI to create a Queens Garden for Marie Antoinette. I had read of this labyrinth and seen prints depicting it. The misunderstanding that it still existed became a lynchpin to my decade + work at Versailles, and questions which address documents as recordings, as evidence, and our approach to documentary materials and practices; trace and remains.
Anti-monuments, 2000
Early notational photographs, Versailles, France. Published in Cabinet Magazine #6. Taken a month after severe storms hit France, destroying many portions of the grounds and gardens at Versailles.
Daly on location 2010-11 Versailles, France. Daly New York Studio 2015.
