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Alba D’Urbano
b. 1955 Tivoli, Italy

The Immortal Tailor 1995-97
Garments, digital print on fabric

Garments that cover the body with photographic images of itself belie the initial function of clothing. Through play with illusionism, flatness and dimensionality, the opposite states of being naked and clothed, are confounded and conflated.