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Jake & Dinos Chapman — House of  Cards

House of Cards

A set of playing cards transformed into a dark and unsettling tableau, with Jake and Dinos Chapman's characteristic macabre imagery rendered in ink across their surfaces. The familiar symbols of leisure and chance become vehicles for the duo's subversive visual language, merging the mundane with the grotesque. The work invites reflection on themes of fate, disorder, and the fragile structures upon which society is built.

Medium
ink on playing cards

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Jake & Dinos Chapman, House of Cards

A set of playing cards transformed into a dark and unsettling tableau, with Jake and Dinos Chapman's characteristic macabre imagery rendered in ink across their surfaces. The familiar symbols of leisure and chance become vehicles for the duo's subversive visual language, merging the mundane with the grotesque. The work invites reflection on themes of fate, disorder, and the fragile structures upon which society is built.

Medium
ink on playing cards
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surreal, Bold, Conceptual, Mixed Media, Ink, Playing Cards, Black, Intricate, Monochromatic, British, Darkly Humorous, Abstract, Contemporary

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