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The Blind Merchant

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Roee Rosen
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2020
Acquisition Grant

Acquired into the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2020.

The Blind Merchant is an installation composed of 145 drawings and 151 pages of text. The work has three components: the complete text of Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice; a “parasitical” text by Rosen, responding to the play from the point of view of Shylock, one of the central characters; and a series of drawings that accompany the text.

Roee Rosen, The Blind Merchant, 1989–91, 145 drawings (various materials on paper) and 151 pages of printed text.

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