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Film by Ericka Beckman, Reach Capacity (film still, 16mm/HD/color/sound, 13 min., 2020). The image illustrates a key later body of work by Ericka Beckman in the 2000s when she produced films exploring power, labor, technology, capitalist markets and ethics. This image depicts her film Reach Capacity, which examined contemporary real estate market abuses and the history of the Monopoly board game. It reimagined Manhattan's grid as a game board that simulates the course of the game and real-life residential displacement, but ends with a socialist reversal. This work and body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, presented at major venues, acquired by museums and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Ericka Beckman. Copyright held by the artist.

Ericka Beckman

Film still

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The image has contextual significance in that it serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work of Ericka Beckman's career: her films of the 2000s, which explored questions of power—its entrenchment and redistribution in social systems—technology, capitalism and ethics through visuals and choreographed movement that suggested a desperate, frenzied model of contemporary life driven by production and money. Architecture, capitalist excess, the contemporary real estate market and residential displacement were often major themes in this work. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's ability to understand this key late body of work in her practice, which brought Beckman ongoing recognition through exhibitions, museum commissions and coverage by major critics and publications. Beckman's work of this type and this work itself is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Ericka Beckman, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.