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There’s so much going on … it’s almost like you can feel the weight of the bananas when you look at the image. I sympathize with their struggle because straightening up a bike that’s covered in something heavy is no fun thing to do.

Jennifer Armstrong-Hicks, Reflections Program Coordinator at the Nasher Museum.
Hugo McCloud, push pull, 2019. Plastic merchandise bags on wood panel, 55 x 85 inches (139.7 x 215.9 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Nancy A. Nasher (J.D.'79, P'18, P'22) and David J. Haemisegger (P'18, P'22), 2020.3.1. © Hugo McCloud. Image courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly, New York.
Hugo McCloud, push pull, 2019. Plastic merchandise bags on wood panel, 55 x 85 inches (139.7 x 215.9 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Nancy A. Nasher (J.D.'79, P'18, P'22) and David J. Haemisegger (P'18, P'22), 2020.3.1. © Hugo McCloud. Image courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly, New York.


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