Posted on May 13, 2025 
by arslohgo
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“Or How We Didn’t Become Famous”—Tribute to The Slits—This work originated from a theater poster advertising a musical about England’s first female punk band, the Slits, from the late 1970s. The band’s German founder, Ari Up, died of breast cancer at age 48. In this modified version of the poster featuring the musical’s performers, images of the Slits from the early 1980s appear to follow the performance.
The foundation of this piece is a photograph of a poster taken in Dinard, Brittany.
[A] The combination of the background of the picture (sky and sea) and another visual object may evoke an (English) term that is ambiguous in German and thus “calls up a second theme”.
[B] In addition, this combination may result in a new subject or an invented word through an equally pronounced but differently spelled word combination, as well as through a differently pronounced but equally spelled word.
[C] Sometimes it is the title of the work that reveals the background and thematic association of the image.
[D] And in the one or other case it is just a modified photograph.