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Five years in the making, Edward and Nancy Kienholz’s installation The Hoerengracht captures the essence of Amsterdam’s Red Light District of days past. A play on words, The Hoerengracht translates from Dutch to “the Whores Canal” and references the Herengracht (Gentlemen’s Canal), a prestigious Amsterdam thoroughfare. The artist couple made the work, a massive installation that recreates a section of the infamous Wallen district, while living in Berlin in the 1980s. Researched in the brothels of sex workers and constructed from materials found in flea markets and salvage yards, it depicts a provocative realm with empathy and wit.
On view for the first time in the city that inspired it, The Hoerengracht reproduces a section of a street with a series of windowed rooms, populated with women making a living from prostitution. The artists cast Berlin friends of various ages to play the roles of prostitutes and fabricated the voyeuristic dens after photographs that they made, ironically, by paying the women for sexual services not rendered. Utilizing vintage objects, such as ’70s TVs, …
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