Joker September 2003 Groningen

PIEK! made the poster Joker for the exhibition Photophuck
in NP3, Groningen.
On the poster there is a front and backside of a playing card. The playing card is the joker: President Bush. Bush is made out of 300 pictures. These picture are photo's of US soldierswho died in Gulfwar II.
The backside (the right card) is also made out of little pictures, a photomosaic. The pictures wich are used are found via Google. With Google image search was searched for the keywords saddam and weapons of mass destruction. The found pictures formed a bigger picture, an oil well.
The posters were spread throughout the city of Groningen and in gallery NP3 a room was covered with posters.

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Volkskrant article wednesday 17 September 2003 >>
'The contibution of PIEK! was well done but the idea wasn't that original'
Wieteke van Zeil