Rory Pilgrim 1988
Lives in Rotterdam / Londen. Works in Londen / Rotterdam.
Represented by:
andriesse eyck galerie
Central to Pilgrim's practice is questioning issues of cultural, social and global responsibility. Pilgrim explores the ways in which we profess what we believe, individually and collectively. Be they present or absent, Pilgrim looks to work with varied groups and individuals from around the world. Resulting in performances, happenings, video work and posters.
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Interview mit RORY PILGRIM im Rahmen von »WHERE THE TIDE TAKES US« Karrabing Film Collective und Rory Pillgrim im Kunstverein Braunschweig, Mai - Juli 2021.
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Rory Pilgrim wins Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2019
Rory Pilgrim made the fifty-minute film The Undercurrent in which he transports the visitors to the world of a group of young people in the American city of Boise (Idaho). The film features beautiful cinematography, wonderful music, and is meticulously edited. Furthermore, the artist raises a number of topical issues in the film. Initially, climate change appears to be its most important theme, but gradually it becomes clear that the young people have other problems too. Some are fighting against gender inequality, others against their parents’ lack of understanding, and still others have become homeless. Central to this film is a house that appears to function as a sanctuary for the main characters. The concept of the sanctuary is also used for the protection of nature. In this way, the film is hinting at a subtle connection between the earth that needs attention and protection, and the young people who need a home for intimacy, security and their future. Pilgrim also created a home like that during the creative process for the film by intensively involving actors and locals The result is a disarming portrait of the insecurities, hopes and expectations of a generation, and what’s more a film that gives the young people an opportunity to address themselves directly to the viewer. The jury greatly appreciates how the artist has engaged with this group and also values his intention to continue the collaboration in other ways. This characterizes the integrity of the project and makes the jury curious about a follow-up. Not only has Pilgrim shown himself as a master in making films that combine cinematography, music, content, form and topicality, but it is also obvious that he has a great and genuine sense of commitment.
The jury was unanimous in its decision to award the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2019 to Rory Pilgrim.
Jury Prix de Rome
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In museum collection:
Bonnefantenmuseum
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Teylers Museum
Tate Modern, London
Centraal Museum Utrecht
Market position
Rory Pilgrim was a participant of De Ateliers residency programme Amsterdam in 2008-2010. In 2019 Pilgrim won the Prix de Rome price Visual Arts.
Recent solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Braunschweig, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Between Bridges, Berlin, South London Gallery, the Flat Time House in London, Rongwrong in Amsterdam, SIC Raum für Kunst in Luzern, among others. He had performances at The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Transmediale Festival in Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Kunst-Werke in Berlin, Rowing Project in London and Arco Madrid. In 2012, Pilgrim created a large scale performance to commemorate the reopening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
In March 2022 he will show a new film at the Serpentine Gallery, London In 2023
Recent solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Braunschweig, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Between Bridges, Berlin, South London Gallery, the Flat Time House in London, Rongwrong in Amsterdam, SIC Raum für Kunst in Luzern, among others. He had performances at The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Transmediale Festival in Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Kunst-Werke in Berlin, Rowing Project in London and Arco Madrid. In 2012, Pilgrim created a large scale performance to commemorate the reopening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
In March 2022 he will show a new film at the Serpentine Gallery, London In 2023
CV
Education and Qualifications
The Syllabus, Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire 2015-2016
De Ateliers, Amsterdam 2008-2010
BA First Class Honours (Fine Art)
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London 2005-2008
ERASMUS made at the Eesti Kunsti Akadeemia- Jan-May 2007
Awards and Residencies
2019 Prix de Rome price Visual Arts 2019
Ming Studios, Boise, Idaho, USA
2017 Arts Initiative Tokyo supported by Mondriaan Fonds
2016 DanceWeb, Vienna
2015 FTHo Residency, Flat Time House, London
Platform Residency at Site Gallery, Sheffield supported by The University of Sheffield
2014 Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal supported by Mondriaan Fonds
Haus am See, Luzern, CH
2013 Stichting CoCA Winner
Starters Stipendium Mondriaan Fonds
SOLO
2020 Radio Ballads, Serpentine Gallery and BBC, London, UK (Forthcomming)
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE (duo) (Forthcoming)
The Undercurrent, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
2019 Software Garden, MING Studios, Boise, ID, USA
The Resounding Bell, Between Bridges, Berlin, DE
2018 Software Garden, andriesse eyck galerie, NL
The Resounding Bell, South London Gallery, UK
We find each other floating (Performance with Susie Green), Durham Castle, Durham, UK
2017 Software Garden: Performance II, Baltic, Newcastle, UK (with Circa Projects)
Software Garden, Rowing Gallery, London
Software Garden: Performance I, Block Universe Festival 2017, London, UK
Sacred Repositories Trilogy, Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema, UK
2016 Dwarling, My Darling, Nachtelijke Dwaling #9, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL (With Susie Green)
The Open Sky, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
The Open Sky. Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Open Sky, Flat Time House, London
2015 Words are not signs, they are years, Site Gallery, Sheffield (exhibition and residency)
Violently Speaking, andriesse - eyck galerie, Amsterdam
2014 Seeds Upon The Dance Floor, SIC Raum für Kunst, Luzern
The Salt and the Leaven, Rongwrong, Amsterdam
Platform Residencies: The Artist Proposes, Site Gallery Sheffield
Sacred Repositories, Witte de With, Rotterdam (Screening)
2013 Liste 18, Basel
Wholeheartedly, Detroit, Bristol
Wholeheartedly, Educating Artists, Kunst Werke, Berlin
Performance as Publishing, Rowing Projects, London
Public Display of Affection, Rongwrong, Amsterdam
2012 Care, ARCO, The Dutch Pavilion, Madrid (commission)
De Stille Revolutie, Supermarket, Stockholm
2011 Can we leave things as they are?, TAG, Den Haag, (duo show with Louwrien Wijers)
De Stille Revolutie, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag
The Rainbow, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
2010 Women and Children: What has made this building last?, Temporary Stedelijk’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (commission)
2009 9x14, (with Mathilde Rosier) Silberkuppe, Städliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2008 www.weymouthaapsalu.com, released 13th of June, 2008
2006 Going on a Pilgrimage with the Estonian Orthodox Church, Meeksi to Saatse, Setumaa Estonia, July 2006
GROUP
2020 Centre Pompidou (Software Garden) (Forthcomming)
2019 This Is My Body, My Body Is Your Body, My Body Is the Body of the Word, (Software Garden) Le Delta, Namur, BE
Madlove Take Over: Software Garden, Heart of Glass, The Madlove Take Over Space, St Helens
Artists’ Moving Image Festival (AMIF) (Software Garden), LUX Scotland
Prix de Rome 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
An Exhibition of Posters, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
Conversing Motherboards (Software Garden), The Studio, Antwerp Art Weekend, BE
(Un)Commoning Voices & (Non)Communal Bodies, Reading International, Reading, UK
Software Garden, Screening and Talk, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Software Garden Performance, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Software Garden Performance, Transmediale Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2018 Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
2017 Holographic Bonds, MAC and Grand Union, Shout Festival, Birmingham, UK
Among Other Things I've Taken Up Smoking, TENT, Rotterdam
For and Against, Radar, Loughborough, UK
Cure Park, TAAK, Amsterdamse Bos, NL
Dejima. Concepts of In- and Exclusion, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
2016 Dolf Henkes Award 2016, Tent Rotterdam
Shifting Spaces, W139, Amsterdam
2015 Sfear fan Ynset, Triennale, Beetsterzwaag
Affection is The Best Protection, Land Art Live, Almere
When I Give, I Give Myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
2014 Affection is the Best Protection, - Launch Disco - Land Art Live, Polderland Garden of Love and Fire, Almere
Beating around the bush: Episode #3, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
The House in the Sky : Artists Reflect on Concrete Utopias, Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London
Prospects and Concepts, Mondriaan Fonds and Art Rotterdam
2012 Pay Attention, Please, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Sounds of Protest, Arnolfini and Colston Hall, Bristol
Dialogue is Normal, Herengracht 1, Amsterdam
Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs 2012, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2011 He Disappearred into complete silence, De Hallen, Haarlem
Sowing and Weeding, COBRA Museum, Amstelveen
2010 For the Birds, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Morality Act IX - Let Us Compare Mythologies, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Offspring 2010, de Ateliers, Amsterdam
For the Birds, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2009 When the lightness of Poetry, Rotterdam, 21st-27th September
Week long public performance commissioned by Sculpture International Rotterdam. Curated by Germaine Kruip with artists Alfredo Jaar, David Lamelas, and Roman Ondak
Terms and Conditions, curated by Dominc Eichler, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2008 From Across the Sea, Chelsea College of Art Degree Show, London
Ainult pool Linnast (Only Half the Town), Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2007 The Baiji, Chelsea College of Art, London UK
Flowers Around a Tree, Tallinn, Estonia
Publications and Reviews
‘The Open Sky’ Commissioned by Flat Time House and published on the event of the exhibition The Open Sky, 2016, Edition 250
'When I give I give myself', May 2015, Exhibition Catalogue published by Van Gogh Museum
'Art Review Online', March 2015, Violently Speaking Review by Robert Jan Muller
'Metropolis M' - No 2, April/May 2015, Conversation with Zhana Ivanov
'Performance as Publishing' - 2013, Exhibition Catalogue, Rowing Projects
'Can We Leave Things As They Are?' - 2012, Essay by Arnisa Zeqo (Galerie Paul Andriesse, Edition 500)
'Beyond Imagination' - 2012, Stedelijk Museum Catalogue
'Rory Pilgrim' - Groene Amsterdammer, October 2012, by Rudi Fuchs
'What does it mean to you?' - Mr Motley Magazine, April 2012, by Bernke Klein Zandvoort
'The Rainbow' - Art in America, September 2011, by David Ulrichs
'The Rainbow' - Flash Art, May-June 2011
'Waar politiek zich ongemerkt voltrekt' - Tubelight, May 2011, by Jesse van Winden
'For the Birds' - Artist Newsletter, October 2010, by Carole Baugh
‘Metropolis M’ - No 4, August/September 2010, by Xander Karskens
‘Offspring 2010’ - Text by Suzanne Wallinga, edited by Dominic van den Boogerd
Talks, Lectures and Workshops
Mainz Academy of Art, DE, 2019 (Workshop)
Hamburger Community of Art, Roodkapje, NL, 2019 (Month Mentor and Facilitator)
Transmediale Student Forum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, DE, 2019 (Artist Talk)
Master Education of Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, NL (Guest Tutor and Workshop)
Willem de Konning Academie, NL (Artist Talk)
In Conversation, Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth, UK, 2017 (Talk)
'Future Body Talk', AIT, Tokyo, JP, 2017 (Talk)
'The Extraordinary Everyday', ICA, London, UK, 2016 (Talk)
Chelsea College of Art, London, UK, 2016 (3-week workshop)
Cure Master, Sandberg Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL, 2016 (Guest Tutor)
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, 2016 (lecture)
Transmission Lecture, Sheffield Hallam University, 2015 (lecture)
Haus An See, Luzern, Switzerland, 2014 (Talk)
'A Forward Leaning Conversation' - Detroit, Bristol, UK (Talk)
UNIVERS(E)ity, Zolder Museum, Amsterdam, NL 2013 (Guest Teacher)
BA Fine Art Programme KABK, Den Haag, NL 2013 (Guest Tutor)
De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL 2013 (Talk)
De Appel Gallerist Programme, NL, 2012 (Talk)
Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, Firstsite, UK, 2012 (Event and Screening)
PiST/// Istanbul, TR, 2012 (Talk with Fatos Lubonja)
Impakt Festival Utrecht, NL, 2011 (Talk)
Masters for Artistic Research, Den Haag, NL, 2011 -2012 (Guest Tutor)
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL, 2011 (Talk)
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, 2010 (Talk)
Site Gallery, Sheffield UK, 2010 (Talk)
Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL, 2010 (Talk)
Associate Artist for Firstsite, Colchester, UK, 2011-2012
The Syllabus, Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire 2015-2016
De Ateliers, Amsterdam 2008-2010
BA First Class Honours (Fine Art)
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London 2005-2008
ERASMUS made at the Eesti Kunsti Akadeemia- Jan-May 2007
Awards and Residencies
2019 Prix de Rome price Visual Arts 2019
Ming Studios, Boise, Idaho, USA
2017 Arts Initiative Tokyo supported by Mondriaan Fonds
2016 DanceWeb, Vienna
2015 FTHo Residency, Flat Time House, London
Platform Residency at Site Gallery, Sheffield supported by The University of Sheffield
2014 Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal supported by Mondriaan Fonds
Haus am See, Luzern, CH
2013 Stichting CoCA Winner
Starters Stipendium Mondriaan Fonds
SOLO
2020 Radio Ballads, Serpentine Gallery and BBC, London, UK (Forthcomming)
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE (duo) (Forthcoming)
The Undercurrent, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
2019 Software Garden, MING Studios, Boise, ID, USA
The Resounding Bell, Between Bridges, Berlin, DE
2018 Software Garden, andriesse eyck galerie, NL
The Resounding Bell, South London Gallery, UK
We find each other floating (Performance with Susie Green), Durham Castle, Durham, UK
2017 Software Garden: Performance II, Baltic, Newcastle, UK (with Circa Projects)
Software Garden, Rowing Gallery, London
Software Garden: Performance I, Block Universe Festival 2017, London, UK
Sacred Repositories Trilogy, Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema, UK
2016 Dwarling, My Darling, Nachtelijke Dwaling #9, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL (With Susie Green)
The Open Sky, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
The Open Sky. Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Open Sky, Flat Time House, London
2015 Words are not signs, they are years, Site Gallery, Sheffield (exhibition and residency)
Violently Speaking, andriesse - eyck galerie, Amsterdam
2014 Seeds Upon The Dance Floor, SIC Raum für Kunst, Luzern
The Salt and the Leaven, Rongwrong, Amsterdam
Platform Residencies: The Artist Proposes, Site Gallery Sheffield
Sacred Repositories, Witte de With, Rotterdam (Screening)
2013 Liste 18, Basel
Wholeheartedly, Detroit, Bristol
Wholeheartedly, Educating Artists, Kunst Werke, Berlin
Performance as Publishing, Rowing Projects, London
Public Display of Affection, Rongwrong, Amsterdam
2012 Care, ARCO, The Dutch Pavilion, Madrid (commission)
De Stille Revolutie, Supermarket, Stockholm
2011 Can we leave things as they are?, TAG, Den Haag, (duo show with Louwrien Wijers)
De Stille Revolutie, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag
The Rainbow, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
2010 Women and Children: What has made this building last?, Temporary Stedelijk’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (commission)
2009 9x14, (with Mathilde Rosier) Silberkuppe, Städliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2008 www.weymouthaapsalu.com, released 13th of June, 2008
2006 Going on a Pilgrimage with the Estonian Orthodox Church, Meeksi to Saatse, Setumaa Estonia, July 2006
GROUP
2020 Centre Pompidou (Software Garden) (Forthcomming)
2019 This Is My Body, My Body Is Your Body, My Body Is the Body of the Word, (Software Garden) Le Delta, Namur, BE
Madlove Take Over: Software Garden, Heart of Glass, The Madlove Take Over Space, St Helens
Artists’ Moving Image Festival (AMIF) (Software Garden), LUX Scotland
Prix de Rome 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
An Exhibition of Posters, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
Conversing Motherboards (Software Garden), The Studio, Antwerp Art Weekend, BE
(Un)Commoning Voices & (Non)Communal Bodies, Reading International, Reading, UK
Software Garden, Screening and Talk, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Software Garden Performance, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Software Garden Performance, Transmediale Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2018 Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
2017 Holographic Bonds, MAC and Grand Union, Shout Festival, Birmingham, UK
Among Other Things I've Taken Up Smoking, TENT, Rotterdam
For and Against, Radar, Loughborough, UK
Cure Park, TAAK, Amsterdamse Bos, NL
Dejima. Concepts of In- and Exclusion, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
2016 Dolf Henkes Award 2016, Tent Rotterdam
Shifting Spaces, W139, Amsterdam
2015 Sfear fan Ynset, Triennale, Beetsterzwaag
Affection is The Best Protection, Land Art Live, Almere
When I Give, I Give Myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
2014 Affection is the Best Protection, - Launch Disco - Land Art Live, Polderland Garden of Love and Fire, Almere
Beating around the bush: Episode #3, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
The House in the Sky : Artists Reflect on Concrete Utopias, Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London
Prospects and Concepts, Mondriaan Fonds and Art Rotterdam
2012 Pay Attention, Please, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Sounds of Protest, Arnolfini and Colston Hall, Bristol
Dialogue is Normal, Herengracht 1, Amsterdam
Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs 2012, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2011 He Disappearred into complete silence, De Hallen, Haarlem
Sowing and Weeding, COBRA Museum, Amstelveen
2010 For the Birds, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Morality Act IX - Let Us Compare Mythologies, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Offspring 2010, de Ateliers, Amsterdam
For the Birds, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2009 When the lightness of Poetry, Rotterdam, 21st-27th September
Week long public performance commissioned by Sculpture International Rotterdam. Curated by Germaine Kruip with artists Alfredo Jaar, David Lamelas, and Roman Ondak
Terms and Conditions, curated by Dominc Eichler, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2008 From Across the Sea, Chelsea College of Art Degree Show, London
Ainult pool Linnast (Only Half the Town), Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2007 The Baiji, Chelsea College of Art, London UK
Flowers Around a Tree, Tallinn, Estonia
Publications and Reviews
‘The Open Sky’ Commissioned by Flat Time House and published on the event of the exhibition The Open Sky, 2016, Edition 250
'When I give I give myself', May 2015, Exhibition Catalogue published by Van Gogh Museum
'Art Review Online', March 2015, Violently Speaking Review by Robert Jan Muller
'Metropolis M' - No 2, April/May 2015, Conversation with Zhana Ivanov
'Performance as Publishing' - 2013, Exhibition Catalogue, Rowing Projects
'Can We Leave Things As They Are?' - 2012, Essay by Arnisa Zeqo (Galerie Paul Andriesse, Edition 500)
'Beyond Imagination' - 2012, Stedelijk Museum Catalogue
'Rory Pilgrim' - Groene Amsterdammer, October 2012, by Rudi Fuchs
'What does it mean to you?' - Mr Motley Magazine, April 2012, by Bernke Klein Zandvoort
'The Rainbow' - Art in America, September 2011, by David Ulrichs
'The Rainbow' - Flash Art, May-June 2011
'Waar politiek zich ongemerkt voltrekt' - Tubelight, May 2011, by Jesse van Winden
'For the Birds' - Artist Newsletter, October 2010, by Carole Baugh
‘Metropolis M’ - No 4, August/September 2010, by Xander Karskens
‘Offspring 2010’ - Text by Suzanne Wallinga, edited by Dominic van den Boogerd
Talks, Lectures and Workshops
Mainz Academy of Art, DE, 2019 (Workshop)
Hamburger Community of Art, Roodkapje, NL, 2019 (Month Mentor and Facilitator)
Transmediale Student Forum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, DE, 2019 (Artist Talk)
Master Education of Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, NL (Guest Tutor and Workshop)
Willem de Konning Academie, NL (Artist Talk)
In Conversation, Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth, UK, 2017 (Talk)
'Future Body Talk', AIT, Tokyo, JP, 2017 (Talk)
'The Extraordinary Everyday', ICA, London, UK, 2016 (Talk)
Chelsea College of Art, London, UK, 2016 (3-week workshop)
Cure Master, Sandberg Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL, 2016 (Guest Tutor)
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, 2016 (lecture)
Transmission Lecture, Sheffield Hallam University, 2015 (lecture)
Haus An See, Luzern, Switzerland, 2014 (Talk)
'A Forward Leaning Conversation' - Detroit, Bristol, UK (Talk)
UNIVERS(E)ity, Zolder Museum, Amsterdam, NL 2013 (Guest Teacher)
BA Fine Art Programme KABK, Den Haag, NL 2013 (Guest Tutor)
De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL 2013 (Talk)
De Appel Gallerist Programme, NL, 2012 (Talk)
Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, Firstsite, UK, 2012 (Event and Screening)
PiST/// Istanbul, TR, 2012 (Talk with Fatos Lubonja)
Impakt Festival Utrecht, NL, 2011 (Talk)
Masters for Artistic Research, Den Haag, NL, 2011 -2012 (Guest Tutor)
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL, 2011 (Talk)
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, 2010 (Talk)
Site Gallery, Sheffield UK, 2010 (Talk)
Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL, 2010 (Talk)
Associate Artist for Firstsite, Colchester, UK, 2011-2012
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