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  • Braco Dimitrijevic b1948
  • This Could be a Place of Historical Interest 1972–7
  • Forty-eight black-and-white photographs
  • Each 530 x 170 mm
  • Presented by Tate Members 2007
  • © Braco Dimitrijevic
  • T12555
Braco Dimitrijevic

This Could be a Place of Historical Interest comprises 48 black-and-white photographs depicting landscapes, interiors and urban scenes. Below each image is printed the words ‘THIS COULD BE A PLACE OF HISTORICAL INTEREST’, and these apparently commonplace or functional locations – a football pitch, the corner of a domestic living room, a windmill, a drab hotel etc – are thereby offered the possibility of elevation to the status of ‘historical interest’ by the artist. Dimitrijevic questions the conventions and hierarchies which inform distinctions made between places of cultural significance and those deemed ‘ordinary’. Configured as a sequence of 48 images, the artist uses strategies of seriality and repetition to create an alternative record for posterity in an archive of sites that might otherwise have been overlooked in the annals of history.

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