Prize (Corpus delicti)
Artist/Maker
Jac Leirner
(Brazilian, b. 1961)
Date1993
Medium44 airline ashtrays, boarding passes and airline tickets, metal stand, Plexiglas
DimensionsOverall (with stand): 40 × 18 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (101.6 × 47 × 40 cm)
Overall (plexi enclosure): 5 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (14 × 47 × 40 cm)
Overall (plexi enclosure): 5 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (14 × 47 × 40 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jerry M. Lindzon
Object number2010.25.2
Status
Not on viewComprising forty-four ashtrays and boarding passes, Prize, is part of the Corpus delicti series (1993–2001) that Leirner made of materials taken from airplanes. The series title—Latin for “body of crime” and a legal term for the material evidence of a crime—refers to Leirner’s subversive act of pilfering objects from aircraft. The ashtrays are associated with specific boarding passes that reveal information about the seat locations to which they once belonged.
Exhibition History
Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 2, 2014 - June 28, 2015 )
Collections
- Modern & Contemporary
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19th century
2021