McCollum built a world where objects replicate endlessly — systems generating unique yet serial forms.
His works clarify identity through mass variation.
McCollum built a world where objects replicate endlessly — systems generating unique yet serial forms.
His works clarify identity through mass variation.
Serial production is typically associated with standardization, where repetition erases distinction in favor of sameness. In Allan McCollum’s work, seriality operates by generating difference through scale rather than individuality. Systems produce large quantities of closely related forms, where uniqueness exists only as a variable within repetition.
No single instance carries priority. Meaning emerges from accumulation, circulation, and distribution rather than from isolated presence.
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