Cops and Teens: Why Teen had Her Dad Killed (14th September 1987)

Born in Poland and now based in London, Swedish-American artist Aleksandra Mir has received widespread acclaim for her collaborative project-based practice. The present work stems from her 2007 installation Newsroom 1986-2000, which comprised drawings depicting the front pages of various New York tabloids from that time period. At the show’s first exhibition in New York, Mir and her team carried out the drawings in the gallery itself: working in the manner of a newsroom, they produced the next day’s ‘headlines’ while visitors milled around them looking at the previous day’s work. Painstakingly recreating these stories by hand, the artist sought to draw attention not only to the shared cultural memory cultivated by the media, but also to the processes of human collaboration that underpin its distribution. Mir has exhibited widely over the last twenty-five years, with works held in major international collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Tate, London. She has recently mounted solo shows at Modern Art Oxford, Tate Liverpool and the Hayward Gallery, London.