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"In the late eighties and early nineties Geoff Kleem made photo-based works in which he first painted and then photographed abandoned industrial interiors. When photographed, some of the painted areas flattened out into geometrical shapes - often stripes or bands and often a rich, chemical black - that seemed to hover before the surface of the frequently monochrome interiors. The result was a series of blurred oppositions: between painting and photography, surface and interior, edge and field, and between the production and reproduction of objects." (F. Ward, 'Geoff Kleem: Useless Things', Art and Text 52, 1995, p. 62)