"Title Deed", framed photograph by An Te Liu
Limited Edition photograph printed on archival paper by contemporary Canadian Artist An Te Liu. While it may appear that "Title Deed" has been digitally manipulated and coloured, the subject of the photograph was in fact wholly painted bright green, before being photographed. Simply framed for preservation and presentation.
Title Deed comes from a site-specific project where the artist refashioned a vacant suburban house as a life-sized Monopoly piece. Commissioned at the height of the subprime mortgage crisis, Liu takes a classically Canadian suburban home and provides a frame of reference for understanding the 2008 financial crisis as an event caused by the freewheeling trading of mortgages as if they were pieces in a Monopoly game.
An Te Liu is a Taiwanese-Canadian artist based in Toronto, while known for his sculptures, his practice ranges many mediums and includes public installations. His works are included in the collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; and The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
Canada