SUBWORLDS GROUP EXHIBITION
Opening 23 August 2024 6.00 pm
24 Aug – 30 Sep 2024
ARTISTS:
Cpt. Olf, Jürgen Grosse, Louise Amelie, Lucia Jost, Manuel Lossau, Norman Behrendt, R. Borrmann, Whatsup Nini
CURATOR:
Andreas Bauer
ZIK (Zentrum für internationale Künste)
Walther-Schreiber-Platz 1, 12161 Berlin
Wed–Sat, 4 am–9 pm
Blueprint 2017-20 will be included in the photo book exhibition at Fotobokfestival Oslo 2024. The festival will take place at Gamle Munch 6 – 15 September.
Inspired by the book "What If" by Vilém Flusser, this year's festival speculates on possible futures through the themes; family life, politics and economy. In this three-part exhibition, history meets the future in the present.We live in a time where the development of trends, technology, and politics is going at a breakneck pace. Moore's law predicts that the amount of information, the amount of computing power, and the amount of memory power required, will double every other year in our hyper-technological society. This rapid acceleration changes how we interact with information, texts, and images. The present suddenly feels shorter somehow. The future becomes a faster present and the present a faster past. Our ability to concentrate deteriorates as the amount of information steadily increases.A book can be understood as a linear presentation of information, texts, and images. It functions as a container which structures our attention and delineates information. So, what can the limited book do to us at a time when our senses are under siege every day? Is the book’s limitations a problem or a solution? Is the photo book’s anachronistic nature also its superpower? Through its various events, the festival will explore the subversive potential of the photo book and speculate on its place in the future.In 1984, philosopher and media theorist, Vilém Flusser published What If? (Angenommen) which is a collection of twenty-two scenarios for the future, divided into three main chapters; scenes from the family life, scenes from the economy, and scenes from politics. In these texts, Flusser explores ideas of fantastical futures, which, among other things, feature talking fetuses, exploding super-cows, and information-producing insects. Fotobokfestival Oslo 2024 is organised according to the same division; the family, the economy and politics. By utilising these divisions, around 80 books and three commissioned works will show us the way through the flow of information.Fotobokfestival Oslo 2024: WHAT IF?
Curated by Marte Aas & Line Bøhmer Løkken
September 6 – September 15
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Brave New Turkey got featured at Thinking about Photography.
This time Ann Mitchell collected and curated photography projects on the subject of "Photographers and Identity". Have a look.
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EXHIBITION:
Opening 18 January 2024 6.30 pm
19 Sep – 2 March 2024
Perspective Galerie
54 rue Jacob , 75006 Paris
Tue–Sat, 11 am–6.30 pm
Invitation
Grand opening of the first buildings of the Kyiv-Berlin metro
Sunday, 29 October at 4 pm
40, Kazymyr Malevycha St., Kyiv, Ukraine
Everybody welcome!
Eight artists from Leipzig, Düsseldorf and Berlin take part in an artist in residence in Kyiv from May to October 2023 as part of the residency “I come and see”, initiated by the Düsseldorf artist Paul Maciejowski. During the residency the artists will work in a studio in the historic Soviet building “Institute of Automation” — now a place of artistic self-organization, exchange and an important source of strength for the Kyiv art scene — along side the Ukrainian artist group “Institute of Automation” with about 60 (before the war 120) members.
The motivation of the participating artists is different, but is linked by the shared studio and the decision to take the risk of making art based on the Ukrainian reality in Kyiv. All artists consider the exchange with each other as well as with artists from Ukraine, the opportunity to learn from each other and giving each other moral support, of great importance. One aspect of this is the communication between people in different realities of life, which are naturally and inevitably reflected in art.
The central idea of the residency is to promote exchange into Ukraine (and not out of Ukraine) and thus contribute to the growth and preservation of the Kyiv cultural landscape by creating a network of friendships and joint initiatives.
The residency “I come and see” is supported by the Kunstiftung NRW and the Ministry of Art and Science NRW.
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Kult books launched a section on their website, where you can overview and purchase your collectors edition from “Blueprint, 2017-20”. The 30 unique copies are numbered and signed.
The collector’s edition includes the book housed in a slipcase, with hot foiled European Union logo with one star cut out, wrapped in unique cyanotyped tabloid newspaper sheet and an original A3 cyanotype print.
kult books
via my website
I was giving a lecture about my work “Exit” to photography and architecture students from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich. We were talking about maps, walking as an artistic practice and also got really nerdy on Berlin`s metro architecture. Thanks for the invitation Professor Sue Barr!
The first 3 screenprints of my work “Exit” are freshly printed and are waiting for a new home!
U9 - orange
U8 - blue
U6 - purple
Signed and numbered
Edition 17
25% of all earnings go to Hawar.help
50 x 50 cm / 19.6 x 19.6 inch - printed area
60 x 60 cm / 23.6 x 23.6 inch - paper size
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I am taking part in an underground exhibition with the mysterious name “Dead End Gallery”. The group exhibition takes place in an abandoned tunnel in the centre of Berlin. I will present my work “Exit” as a sight specific installation. The group exhibition will be curated by Adits world.
The site specific installation “Exit” shows a selection of 9 opened emergency hatches of the Berlin underground railway system (U-Bahn).
The hatch — usually opened from inside the tunnel — represents a door that connects the underground metro system with the public space of the city. The playful intervention of opening the surveilled door to the underground subverts the notion of emergency, questioning order and security.
Leaving the actor and action out of the frame, the spectator remains with an empty stage, suspended in time, floating between what has happened and what might gonna happen. The work has been shown last week in an abandoned underground tunnel as part of the group exhibition “Dead End Gallery” by Adits world in Berlin.
“Exit”, 420 x 420 cm
9 different RAL tones (each RAL tone represents one of the metro lines)
pasted wall prints
Dead End Gallery
location unknown
Berlin
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I have the honor to be a portfolio reviewer at Fotograf Festival. I am looking forward to see your work!
Fotograf Association is calling on those interested in consulting their artistic portfolios in the program of the 12th Fotograf Festival. Your work will receive feedback from internationally renowned experts, artists, photographers, theorists and curators during at least four fifteen-minute sessions. In addition, the consultants will select one of the Portfolio Review participants, whose work will be published in Fotograf Magazine or will be included in the exhibition program of Fotograf Gallery in 2023 (depending on the character of the work). The consultation format is one-on-one. You can consult your portfolio both in electronic and printed form. Consultations are held in English and Czech.
22 Sep 2022, 13.00 pm
Fotograf Gallery
Jungmannova 7, Prague 1
Tue–Fri, 1–7 pm; Sat, 11 am–7 pm
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Who does belong here? A seemingly simple question seems to be at the heart of much of the current cultural debates, policy-making and social measures. The question of belonging even becomes a threat for various people when they do not fit into the imaginary homogeneous vision of a nation that is advocated for by a growing number of proponents of the extreme right and populism. The central exhibition of the Fotograf Festival presents artistic strategies that recognise this attack on civil rights and liberties, understanding it as symptomatic of the shift from a democratic to an authoritarian political order. Departing from the notion of chronopolitics, the exhibition contests political tendencies that draw a coherent line from a pristine past to an idealised future that must be defended against the supposed threats of diversity, gender sensitivity, and the empowerment of marginalised groups. The presented works of predominantly Central European artists accentuate the historical conditioning of the current repressive tendencies, developing possible forms of resistance by artistic means.
In his visual investigation “Blueprint, 2017–20”, photographer Norman Behrendt reflects the imagery that has been used during and since the Brexit Referendum to manipulate and spread popular beliefs concerning national pride, Euroscepticism, anxiety, immigration and lack of control. Using a lengthy process, Behrendt transferred the transient imagery, captured from digital sources, into cyanotypes. The collector’s edition of the accompanying artist book, wrapped in tainted Evening Standard's front pages of that time, is on display at the National Gallery. In re-working imagery from digital sources and printed materials, the artist emphasises the conditions of image production and circulation.
ARTISTS: The Archive of Public Protests, Norman Behrendt, Eiko Grimberg, Barbara Gryka & Filip Kijowski, Juliane Jaschnow, Szabolcs KissPál, Dóri Lazár, Michaela Nagyidaiová, Emília Rigová, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Christina Werner, Jiří Žák
EXHIBITION:
Opening 22 Sep 2022 7 pm
23 Sep – 8 Jan 2023
Trade Fair Palace
The National Gallery in Prague (NGP)
Dukelských hrdinů 47, Prague 7
Tue–Sun, 10 am–6 pm
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The exhibition “Extremely Normal” is dedicated to the ambivalence of visual representations of far-right violence. The visual stereotype of the “far-right outlaw” seems to be outdated as it does not grasp the vast extent of the current manifestations of affiliation with extreme nationalist and right-wing policies. Nonetheless, the portrayal of far-right hooligans or protesters is prevalent, especially in the journalistic approach — even if this repetition of stereotypes, poses, and gestures might limit the idea of who the actors and backers of the scene are. Moreover, the victims and those affected by far-right violence are often out of focus and become voiceless.
The artists in the exhibition deploy different artistic strategies and media-reflexive approaches to come to terms with the far right by visual means and to recognize the often troubling commonalities of reference, uncanny familiarity, and structural racism that our societies are complicit with.
The entry of the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany) into the German Parliament in 2017 and its subsequent rise to become the strongest party in the regional parliaments in the Czech-German border regions speaks of the increasing normalisation of extremist thinking. Photographer Norman Behrendt examines the party’s social media imagery and media coverage and contrasts the constant flux of volatile images with the laborious technique of cyanotype. Through selection, editing, alienation and recomposition, a visual language becomes visible that can only be read as partially extreme because it also aims to appeal to the moderate citizen.
ARTISTS: Norman Behrendt, Jakob Ganslmeier, Ludwig Rauch, Mykola Ridnyi, Alex Gerbaulet & Mareike Bernien, Ewa Einhorn, Belit Sağ
CURATORS: Tereza Rudolf, Elisabeth Pichler, Markéta Mansfieldová
EXHIBITION:
Opening 8 Sep 2022 6 pm
9 Sep – 22 Oct 2022
Fotograf Gallery
Jungmannova 7, Prague 1
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I am showing new works of mine at “No One Belongs Here More Than You”, Fotograf Festival 12.
What we can witness in postsocialist Central and Eastern European countries nowadays, as well as in the Former West, is the rise of nationalist, populist, and far-right tendencies that are becoming increasingly normalised in our societies. Embraced by political representation, the implementation of discriminatory and exclusionary structures is justified by the vision of a uniform community. By making tangible borders and those in our minds more impermeable, this becomes visible in both public and virtual spaces.
The 12th edition of the Fotograf Festival explores the role of contemporary art in confronting these pressing social issues and asks how do photography and moving image contribute to the representation, understanding, and subversion of such political tendencies and their manifestations in spaces to which we belong. Accordingly, the festival brings together documentary, media-reflexive and activist approaches and sets a thematic focal point at each exhibition venue.
The central exhibition “No One Belongs Here More Than You” at the National Gallery’s Trade Fair Palace presents artistic strategies that question nationalist narratives as well as their fabrication and manipulation for cultural and political purposes. The exhibition “Extremely Normal” in the Fotograf Gallery asks how to come to terms with the far right by visual means, particularly in relation to contemporary photography and audiovisual art. Coming to terms with the contemporary visual presence of far-right symbolism in the public space is the theme of the exhibition “Outlet” presented at the Artwall Gallery.
Bringing together local and international artistic positions, the festival gives a platform to a variety of artistic strategies, perspectives, and specific contexts. An overall comparative view of the works makes it possible to perceive both commonalities and particularities, allowing for the reflection of one's own situatedness. By doing so, the festival aims to create interconnected environments where artistic and theoretical approaches could be shared and discussed with the audience.
The festival is curated by a group of female curators including Markéta Mansfieldová, Elisabeth Pichler, and Tereza Rudolf, and consists of exhibitions, discursive events, and artistic interventions, which take place during September and October 2022.
Opening:
8 September 2022, 6 pm
VENUE
Fotograf Gallery
Jungmannova 7, Prague 1
Tue–Fri, 1–7 pm; Sat, 11 am–7 pm
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My work “Brave New Turkey” was awarded by The European Architectural Photography Prize architekturbild and will be shown in a big group exhibition at DAM, Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt.
European Architectural Photography Prize by architekturbild 2021 focuses on the built environment and its photographic and artistic exploration.
The theme of 2021 — “The Urban in the Periphery”City and countryside, migration between conurbations and rural areas, their respective attractiveness and independence, but also dependence and interdependence with one another — this is what moves people in the long term, whether they choose one of these living environments voluntarily or forced, or even commute between the two worlds. The layers between town and country are becoming more permeable, a clear assignment is becoming more difficult.
Exhibition:
Opening Friday, the 16th of July, 7pm under restricted regulations.
17 July – 26 September 2021
DAM
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The photobook Blueprint 2017–20 explores how the mass media has influenced political debates and democratic processes during the process of Brexit. Norman Behrendt's photographs of Brexit-related video material examine what sort of imagery is used to influence people by stirring up deep-seated attitudes around national pride, immigration and lack of control. The blue color of the cyanotypes reflects the invisible influence of the European Union on the United Kingdom.
OTA bound paperback with coloured edges / 304 pages / Duotone offset printing / 17 x 25,5 cm / 212 photographs / Essay by London-based artist, critic and art historian Lucy Soutter / Appendix featuring crucial texts and speeches about Brexit and EU-UK relations
First edition of 800 copies
ISBN 978-91-984059-4-1
Estimated release date 15th April 2021
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The CIRCULATION (S) festival is celebrating its 10th edition. This year, 45 artists have been selected and I am among of them. I will present my work “Alternative, 2019-20” for the first time.
Opening:
14 March 14h00 - 19h00
Exhibition:
14 March - 10 May 2020
Venue:
Le Centquatre-Paris
5 Rue Curial 75019 Paris
closest Metro station: Riquet
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Please feel warmly invited to the Pop-Up Show Good Bye Great Britain at Gallery Alles Mögliche Odenwaldstraße 21, 12161 Berlin.
Brexit is going to get done. Britain will leave the European Union on the 31.01.2020 at 12pm, after 47 years of membership. Let’s not face this historical day without consolation! On the occasion of this historical evening I will show excerpts of my work Blueprint, 2019-20 in a Pop-Up-Show.
Opening:
31 January, 20h00 - 00h30
Exhibition:
31 Jan. - 07 Feb. 2020, please contact the Gallery to arrange a viewing
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The 4th Edition of the festival with the title See Beyond the Sea focuses on Myths and Religion and features sixteen exhibitions by artists such as Liza Ambrossio, Sanne De Wilde, Norman Behrendt, Michela Benaglia, Alinka Echeverría, Jesse Rieser, Roei Greenberg among others.
Opening: Friday September 6th, 7.30pm | Palazzo Palmieri
Artistic direction Giovanni Troilo, Photography curatorship Arianna Rinaldo.
Exhibition: 6 Sept - 3 Nov 2019
PhEST – The International Festival of Photography and Art, Monopoli, Italy
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My work “Blueprint Extended” is selected for The Prix Voies Off 2019 and will be shown at this years Voies Off Festival in Arles with the theme Everything is art, everything is politics. The main visual for the 2019's festival edition belongs to my work “Blueprint, 2017-2018” in which I explored the methods of British mass media in regards to Brexit and how manipulation and the language of power influence political debates and democratic processes. See you in Arles!
Opening Week: July 1 - July 6, 2019
Archbishop's court - Arles
Exhibitions : July 1 - September 22, 2019
Entire city of Arles
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I am very honored that the last copy (No.15) of the Special Edition of my photobook Burning Down the House goes into the Martin Parr Photobook Collection of the TATE BRITAIN.
Viewing 26 October - 1 November
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 12pm-6pm
Auction 1 November 2pm GMT
30 Berkeley Square, London
My work “Blueprint, 2017-18” a unique polyptych, comprising 175 cyanotypes, is going under the hammer at Phillips Auction House.
Opening: Fri 21st September, 7pm
Introduction by Prof. Michael Rutz, President of the Guardini Gallery and art historian and curator Frizzi Krella.
Exhibition: 22 Sept - 14 Dec
Opening hours: Tue to Fri 10am – 7pm
Guardini Gallery, Askanischer Platz 4, D-10963 Berlin
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Private view: Fri 22nd June, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Opening hours: Sat 23rd June to Thu 28th June, 11am – 8pm
Ambika P3, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Probable Lies showcases the work of graduate students from the University of Westminster’s critically acclaimed MA Photography Arts course.
Thought-provoking, innovative and eclectic, Probable Lies highlights the diversity of contemporary art photography across genres and media – from analogue images to appropriated online content and digital animation. The exhibition features the artwork of Norman Behrendt, Francesco Catania, Zong Jhan Li, Carly Mason, Nigel Maynard, Arun Misra, Cheryl Newman, Henry Rice, Elinor Rowley, Sarah Peters, Beckie Smith and Rachel Wallace from a wide range of experiential and cultural backgrounds, whose highly individual visual practices have emerged from sustained, rigorous research and experimentation.
The photographers in this exhibition have brushed against the theme of Probable Lies in a number of ways. Some of the images and footage that are most clearly fabricated speak the most deeply to the human condition. Roles are played, identities blurred, alternate worlds created, data glitched. The past and present are sandwiched into a single plane. The current political moment is reflected back at itself with its distortions enhanced. Everyday objects stand in for the cosmos. These works invite us to notice the lens, the screen, the surface of the print, the layers of mediation and construction that have gone into their making. They offer you richly conceived worlds that you have not seen before. Who is to say whether or not they are true and in what terms? Dr. Lucy Soutter
My work “Brave New Turkey” will be part of the main exhibition at 10. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie.
Opening: Fri 20 April, 6 pm
Exhibition: 20 April - 6 May
Designhaus Hessen
Eugen-Bracht-Weg 6
D-64287 Darmstadt
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Nadine Ethner, the editor of VTph Visual Thoughts, an online magazine about contemporary fine art photography, interviewed me about my project Brave New Turkey for the Hatje Cantz Fotoblog.
Hatje Cantz Fotoblog
Éanna de Freine from The Velvet Cell interviewed me about my project Brave New Turkey. Have a look at his journal - Transmission #008.
The Velvet Cell
“Brave New Turkey” will be shown as a solo exhibition in collaboration with Hartmann Projects at Uno Art Space, Stuttgart.
Vernissage: Sat 20 April, 7 - 10pm
Opening times: Tues 5 - 7pm and after appointment
Exhibition: 10 March - 15 April and 8 May - 15 June 2018
The exhibition will be paused between 15 April - 8 May in order to show the work at the Darmstädter Tage für Fotografie.
Uno Art Space
Liststrasse 27
D-70180 Stuttgart
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On 20. January 2018 Beatrice Minda, Anton Roland Laub and me were guests at Fototreff #22 in Berlin. It was a very exciting evening with three interesting positions linking urban structures with political and religious strategies. You can find the recordings of the talk at Soundcloud. The talks were held in German.
talks online here
In great company of Beatrice Minda and Anton Roland Laub, I will present my work Brave New Turkey at Fototreff #22 in Berlin.
Saturday, 20th of January at 7pm
STUDIO JACOB & REISCHEL
Prinzessinnenstrasse 16
Backyard, left entrance, 1st floor
10969 Berlin
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Location
FB event
The more we think countries are closed off and mired in political or economic crises, the more photographers are there. They reveal, tell, attest, invent, repair and rebuild with their own language, that of the image. They decode the early signs of social change.
Come and share this taste for other places at major exhibitions that marked the Rencontres d’Arles this summer with 40 photographers who are wondering about the state of the world.
The World as it is! offers a journey from the shores of the Bosporus to sub-Saharan border areas, from the divided island of Cyprus to a Libya torn between war and refugees. You’ll dive into the watery world of Gideon Mendel; think about the Monsanto case, from climate change to the food crisis, with Mathieu Asselin; see architecture from suburban utopia to the urban sprawl of Ankara. From the local to the global, La Vuelta will take you to the heart of Colombia, where hope is returning after 60 years of armed conflict.
The World as it is! is a radical immersion into the heart of seething, complex geopolitics.
LE MONDE TEL QU’IL VA !
Hangar J1, Quai de la Joliette, Marseille, France
1 November 2017 - 7 January 2018
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(...) Many of Behrendt’s motifs show the newly built mosques in areas that are still barren: city districts are still to be developed around them. While the photographer takes a neutral standpoint in his series, many of the new constructions appear rather displaced. As a result, the images shown of the city point even more firmly to the religious-political changes that have taken place in Turkey over the last twenty years. (...)
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On the special occasion of the exhibition Brave New Turkey as part of the New Discovery Award at the Rencontres Arles, Hartmann Projects published Greetings from Turkey.
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My new work Brave New Turkey is published in the June 18, 2017 issue of the New York Times Magazine accompanied with a great straightforward text by Suzy Hansen.
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My new work Brave New Turkey will be shown for the first time at the New Discovery Award at Rencontres-Arles 2017
Ute Noll / Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, on-photography.com
exhibition curator: Markus Hartmann, www.hartmannprojects.com
Rencontres-Arles 2017, Arles, France
Atelier de la mécanique
3 July - 24 September 2017
10h00 - 19h30
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01.- 08.07.2017 Acht Tage Marzahn
Artists who have grown up in Marzahn are now returning. In a diverse program, works from the fields of photography, painting, sound, performance and installation will be shown along the Marzahner Promenade.
Vernissage: 1st July 2017, 4pm, Victor-Klemperer-Platz, Berlin
The Future is ours — German and Georgian positions on youth culture
A photographic group exhibition featuring works by Sera Dzneladze (GE, 2016), Daro Sulakauri (GE, 2014 -2015) Carmen Catuti (ROU/DE, 2016), Norman Behrendt (DE, 2007-2012), Isadora Tast (DE, 2006), Sandra Stein (DE, up to 2016), Nicole Wilke and Stephan Lucka (DE, 2016)
exhibition curators: Teona Gogichaishvili and Inga Schneider
I. Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum
Karvasla, 8 Str Sioni, Tbilisi, Georgia
6 May - 12 May 2017
Brave New Turkey will be shown at the 6th edition of La Nuit de la Photo in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse
18 February 2017
Club 44, Rue de la Serre 64
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse
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