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Guyton\Walker was formed in 2004 by the American artists Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker, a collaboration with its own – third – artistic identity, signified by the backslash between the two names. Produced by multiple passes through giant inkjet printers, Guyton’s canvases generally represent motifs that have lost precision through having undergone different modes of reproduction (scanning, photocopying, etc.). Walker’s work consists of large-scale prints and collages that use both digital image-processing and screen-printing. Gathered together pell-mell in their joint installations, their works evoke the legacy of Pop Art, notably in the use of industrial processes. This hybrid installation, composed of panels, canvases and various other supports leaning against the wall, sometimes propped up on paint-pots, puts into question notions of authenticity associated with the ideas of image, studio, and artistic discipline.