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London and Berlin-based artists and photography professors Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin\u2019s<\/a> short film, \u2018The Bureaucracy of Angels\u2019 grabs the imagination immediately with an unlikely casting choice; the star of the show – a mechanical wrecking arm – makes a riveting appearance as a soulful ballad singer lamenting the pain of migration.\u00a0 Currently available to watch<\/a> via the Lower East Side gallery Signs & Symbols\u2019 website, the piece\u2019s premise is absurd but the effect is first mesmerizing, then moving.\u00a0 Part destroyer, part guardian, the machine keeps watch over migrants being intercepted by rescue agencies before eventually wrecking boats abandoned by travelers who made it to Sicily.\u00a0 (Available online at signsandsymbols.art<\/a> through May 13th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Broomberg & Chanarin, still from \u2018The Bureaucracy of Angels,\u2019 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London and Berlin-based artists and photography professors Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin\u2019s short film, \u2018The Bureaucracy of Angels\u2019 grabs the imagination immediately with an unlikely casting choice; the star of the show – a mechanical wrecking arm – makes a riveting appearance as a soulful ballad singer lamenting the pain of migration.\u00a0 Currently available to … <\/p>\n

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