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Afghanistan and Brazil, toting a heavy cinematic camera
with which he filmed his forays into the hallucinatory
drugs of those cultures. A gelatin silver print with applied
color, of a man in Pakistan smoking a hookah, hails from
this period. It appears almost to be an antique, a relic
of an Orientalism Polke would have derided. Polke's
films, which include scenes from a farm in the town of
Willich, Germany, where he lived and often collaborated
with others, are often characterized by the double
exposures that would become a motif in other works:
again, layering.
Still from Soot Paintings
(Rußbilder), c. 1990,
Gelatin silver print
© 2014 Estate of Sigmar
Polke/ Artists Rights
Society (ARS), New York /
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
