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Title
Chloe: View of piece with stand-in photograph at the San Diego Natural History Museum
Creator
Katchadourian, Nina (American conceptual artist, born 1968)
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Sculpture and Installations
Situated at the San Diego Natural History Museum and at Linda Moore Gallery in San Diego, Nina Katchadourian's project for inSITE94, "Chloe," showcased Chloe, a taxidermic dog, propped on an embroidered silk pillow. While it was the intention of the artist to sow the actual taxidermic dog at the Natural History Museum, mixed opinion on public perception of a taxidermic pet on view influenced the Museum to opt for a Chloe stand-in. On view at the Museum, in a Plexiglas vitrine, was a photograph of Chloe on an identical silk pillow, accompanied by a placard referring viewers to the Linda Moore Gallery where the actual Chloe could be seen. - inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 186)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
San Diego Natural History Museum
Linda Moore Gallery
Type
image
Format
Mixed media installation
Form/Genre
exhibitions (events)
public art
installations (visual works)
memorials
sculpture (visual work)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb1572965t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Public spaces
Taxidermy
Pets
Humor
Dogs
Deaths
Exhibitions (events)
Public art
Installations (visual works)
Memorials
Sculpture (visual work)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region

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