Danica Dakic’s El Dorado (2006–2007).Photo: Image courtesy of the artist and Documenta 12
Palm Trees and Camouflage Do-rags, Happy Together
For her showing at this summer’s Documenta 12 (the show staged every five years in Kassel, Germany, at which Jeff Koons was famously discovered decades ago), Bosnia-born artist Danica Dakic gets at a new kind of “teenage wasteland.†Inspired by Kassel’s wallpaper — yes, wallpaper — museum, Dakic asked some local youths to man their own Utopia and shot them in a particularly uninspiring locale with all the charm of a suburban New Jersey underpass. Nice juxtaposition, but we probably would have chosen something with a beach. —Rachel Wolff
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