et al.
The Fundamenteel Rekenen (Sculpture)
In contrast to the cult of personality that
surrounds many artists, the artist collective et al.
(a Latin abbreviation for “and others”) operates
as an anonymous group, avoiding the effect an
artist’s biographical details can have on the way
their work is read.
In fact, so effective is this insistence on
anonymity, and so embedded is it in their work,
that any attempt at biographical explanation
quickly becomes a consideration of what they do
rather than who they are.