Jason Oddy British, b. 1967
The Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1999
C-Print
large: 127 x 101 cm / 50 x 39 3/4 in
small: 50 x 40 cm / 19 11/16 x 15 3/4 in
small: 50 x 40 cm / 19 11/16 x 15 3/4 in
Edition of 10
Titled, dated, signed and numbered on reverse
JO0050
As concrete expressions of the aspiration to global harmony and order the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva are instances of superlative design. In the photographs Oddy made...
As concrete expressions of the aspiration to global harmony and order the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva are instances of superlative design. In the photographs Oddy made in these twin seats of world government he sought to isolate and accentuate some of their most salient features. Through a doorway at the far end of the Director General’s corridor polished and burnished to perfection, you can glimpse the outline of a huge and always precarious ceramic model of our globe.