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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Digital Archive Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology
Art Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2014 (up against the wall motherfucker)
untitled 2014 (up against the wall motherfucker), by Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2014

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Artist
untitled 2014 (up against the wall motherfucker) , 2014

Medium
Graphite on wall, silk-screened T-shirts
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Credit Line
Courtesy of the artist. Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; photography by Brian Forrest

In his large-scale, collaboratively made wall drawings, Rirkrit Tiravanija taps global historical events that incite mass demonstrations to show the ongoing human desire for equality and fairness and the need to speak truth to power. For Take It or Leave It, he conceived a new work focusing on the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which broke out following the acquittal of police officers who had been videotaped brutally beating Rodney King, an African American man. Student artists used found images from newspapers and magazines to add drawings to the walls during museum hours throughout the run of the exhibition.