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  • Gretchen Bender, TV Text & Image (Image World Version)(detail), 1989, live television broadcast on nine monitors (color, silent), vinyl lettering, dimensions variable. Photo: Ben Westoby.

    Gretchen Bender, TV Text & Image (Image World Version)(detail), 1989, live television broadcast on nine monitors (color, silent), vinyl lettering, dimensions variable. Photo: Ben Westoby.

    Gretchen Bender

    Sprüth Magers | London

    It was a nice touch, installing Gretchen Bender’s TV Text & Image (Image World Version), 1989, so that it faced the gallery’s front window and the nine bulky wall-mounted CRT monitors were visible from the street, their televised grid flickering with 24-7 live feeds of mainstream media channels. What they were drawing us into was the exhibition “Image World,” which gathered three works made between 1984 and 1990—and a selection of related archival materials—by the Pictures generation artist who died in 2004. Inside, closer to the work, we could read the series of phrases overlaid on the screens

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