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This Cork lad is chancing his arm selling portraits of potatoes
THE WORLD WAS stunned when a photo of a potato by an Irish photographer sold for a million euro last month.
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But Kevin Abosch is not the only photographer selling photos of our beloved potatoes.
Cork man and general chancer who goes by the name Joshua Riviera is excellently parodying the shocking buy by setting up a whole website dedicated to photos of potatoes.
He writes:
Deep.
He told DailyEdge.ie that his work is in no way associated with Abosch’s.
He tells us he hasn’t sold any yet, but came up with the pricing structure using ‘visualisation’.
Bit less than a million, so.
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We were curious if he picked his own potatoes or bought them in Dunnes, but he claims the potatoes aren’t Irish at all.
His work uses uses portraits of “non Irish potatoes, potatoes which are routinely discriminated against, to force the viewer to confront certain uncomfortable truths about themselves and their biases”.
Each potato is named, and comes with a manifesto. Such as this one, The Failure:
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So, who’s gonna be the first to own one of these pieces of art? Tis only the price of a couple of pints when you think about it.
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