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Revenge of the Goldfish

Date

1981

Medium

Silver-dye bleach print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

In the late 1970s Sandy Skoglund began arranging scenes of familiar domestic spaces painted in a monochromatic palette. For this work she created a dreamlike atmosphere by filling the set with handmade, larger-than-life sculptures of goldfish and casting a woman and a boy whose relationship is unclear. The use of grotesque animal caricatures creates tension in an ambiguous narrative that is at once playful and disturbing.

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