Photography

Photo duo's 'death' plays upon the shifting nature of art and exhibitions

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are killing off their joint alter ego with a final show that, by exposing the gallery process, echoes their experimental, interrogative style

16 May 2021 - 00:00 By Graham Wood

"At first, Broomberg & Chanarin wanted to write a farewell letter emulating a suicide note," says Joana Hurtado Matheu, director of Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, where The Late Estate Broomberg & Chanarin, the duo's final exhibition, is being held. "Then they changed their mind."..

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