September 9, 2006 – June 16, 2007<\/p>\n
The Candidates<\/em> is a time-bound urban intervention project that broaches the ephemeral nature of promotional posters while shedding critical light on the proliferation of the image in public space. With her discreet interventions, Nikki Middlemiss proposes a reassessment of the status conventionally attributed to the author, to the work (portraiture), and to its dissemination.<\/p>\n A message cropped up here and there among the countless posters that studded the city during the run-up to elections: Votez pour moi et tout ira bien !!!<\/em> (vote for me and all will be well). Thus were candidates broadsided by the criticisms of citizens refusing to be taken in by politicians\u2019 flimflam. Used as the preferred medium by anyone urgently wanting to publicly express their opinion, these \u201chead shots\u201d lend themselves to varied and unpredictable formal treatment. In tune with public concerns, Nikki Middlemiss teams up with anonymous street \u201cartists\u201d in conjuring headstrong actions that tend to awaken the beast within, and yet to humanize it as well.<\/p>\n The project also found another, mediatized outlet. Indeed, a sample selected by the artist served as background for the 2006-2007 program poster \u2014 we simply drew out the As If All Were Well<\/em> that lay implicit in politicians\u2019 tight-lipped speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 9, 2006 \u2013 June 17, 2007
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