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Lot 106

Anja Niemi
(born 1976)
She Could Have Been A Cowboy

4 October 2021, 14:00 EDT
New York

US$6,000 - US$8,000

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Anja Niemi (born 1976)

She Could Have Been A Cowboy, 2018
Chromogenic print, signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/7' in ink on a label affixed on the frame backing.
sheet 44 1/8 x 59in (112 x 150cm)

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In her series, She Could Have Been A Cowboy, Anja Niemi continues her process of self-examination. This time she turns the lens to a life lived under the constraints of conformity. Every day her fictional character finds herself trapped in the same pink dress when all she really wants is to be a cowboy, dressed in fringe and leather, riding horses in the Wild West. In this series of photographs with multiple layers and possible interpretations, Niemi suggests that "The story is not really about being a cowboy. It's about wanting to be another."

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