Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro
I Want to Believe, 2023
recontexualised lego on board
154 x 103 x 3 cm
Artwork reference: I WANT TO BELIEVE poster from office of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder in the fiction TV series The X-Files. X-Files creator Chris Carter told the Smithsonian that...
Artwork reference:
I WANT TO BELIEVE poster from office of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder in the fiction TV series The X-Files.
X-Files creator Chris Carter told the Smithsonian that the look of the poster “came from me saying, ‘Let’s get a picture of a spaceship and put–Ed Ruscha-like—“I want to believe.”’
A bonus bit of insider info for copyright infringement nerds: Carter also said that no one got clearance for the UFO photo, which had been taken in Europe by a man named Billy Meier. Years after the show’s debut, this oversight caught up with him in the form of an intellectual property lawsuit. In response, a new poster appeared in the show in its fourth season, with a slightly different photo of a flatter UFO.
I WANT TO BELIEVE poster from office of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder in the fiction TV series The X-Files.
X-Files creator Chris Carter told the Smithsonian that the look of the poster “came from me saying, ‘Let’s get a picture of a spaceship and put–Ed Ruscha-like—“I want to believe.”’
A bonus bit of insider info for copyright infringement nerds: Carter also said that no one got clearance for the UFO photo, which had been taken in Europe by a man named Billy Meier. Years after the show’s debut, this oversight caught up with him in the form of an intellectual property lawsuit. In response, a new poster appeared in the show in its fourth season, with a slightly different photo of a flatter UFO.
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