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Janet Bellotto

Janet Bellotto graduated from the Sculpture/Installation program at the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, and received an MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Her practice encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. Water flows through her work: oceans and waves, submersion and reflections, in-between states that are fluid and aqueous. Bellotto has initiated various artist collectives based on producing site-specific work or using spaces outside of gallery walls and creating cultural art exchanges. She has exhibited in various cities including Beijing, Dubai, New York, Mexico City and Venice. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: (2010) Drowning Ophelia, Stratford Gallery, Stratford, Canada; (2009) Point of Encounter, Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE; (2008) WAVE, The LAB, New York City, USA; Chinese Character Biennial, KU Art Center, Beijing, China; (2007) Dehisce, projects, New Orleans, USA. She splits her time between Toronto, Dubai and Venice.
Creator Id: 59
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Year of Birth: 1973
City: Dubai
Country: United Arab Emirates
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: installation, performance, photography, sculpture, video
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Work by Janet Bellotto

Contiguous Contexture #2

Work ID: 62238

Description: Performance: Toronto, Ontario, July 1998. In this performance, in a 19th century costume, I brushed my hair 300 times, counting out loud, down at the port of both Chicoutimi and Toronto. This work was inspired from the stories /histories of Les filles de Roi.

Measurements: Duration of performance/durée de la performance: 1 hour/heure

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Contiguous Contexture #2

Work ID: 62240

Description: Performance: Toronto, Ontario, July 1998. In this performance, in a 19th century costume, I brushed my hair 300 times, counting out loud, down at the port of both Chicoutimi and Toronto. This work was inspired from the stories /histories of Les filles de Roi.

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Contiguous Contexture #2

Work ID: 62241

Description: Performance: Toronto, Ontario, July 1998. In this performance, in a 19th century costume, I brushed my hair 300 times, counting out loud, down at the port of both Chicoutimi and Toronto. This work was inspired from the stories /histories of Les filles de Roi.

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Contiguous Contexture #2

Work ID: 62239

Description: Performance: Toronto, Ontario, July 1998. In this performance, in a 19th century costume, I brushed my hair 300 times, counting out loud, down at the port of both Chicoutimi and Toronto. This work was inspired from the stories /histories of Les filles de Roi.

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62249

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62248

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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Blown Away

Work ID: 62252

Description: Installation, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario. Blown Away consists of 300-cast porcelain angels adhered to a glass bulb that are suspended from a ceiling. Conformed into a cloud, two earphone speakers dangle beneath where the viewer can listen to a sound a compilation of various water sounds that is disruptive / disturbing.

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62246

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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01 – i believe…a lot of things, [video still]

Work ID: 62256

Description: St. Catherine store lot.

Measurements: Space/espace: 145 x 60 x 35 cm

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62247

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62242

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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01 – i believe…a lot of things, [video still]

Work ID: 62257

Description: St. Catherine store lot.

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Blown Away

Work ID: 62253

Description: Installation, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario. Blown Away consists of 300-cast porcelain angels adhered to a glass bulb that are suspended from a ceiling. Conformed into a cloud, two earphone speakers dangle beneath where the viewer can listen to a sound a compilation of various water sounds that is disruptive / disturbing.

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62251

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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01 – i believe…a lot of things, [video still]

Work ID: 62255

Description: St. Catherine store lot.

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62243

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62245

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62250

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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01 – i believe…a lot of things, [installation view]

Work ID: 62254

Description: St. Catherine store lot. The work was originally installed in a vacant store lot. A three-minute loop video projection, which is a close-up of a hand and mouth blowing glitter into the camera. The projection is approximately 3 meters tall, and plays with the perception of wishes and make believe. Throughout the space is a sound that is a compilation of breathing and wind

Measurements: Space/espace: 145 x 60 x 35 cm

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Come Closer: it’s for you

Work ID: 62244

Description: Performance. La Torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
This work appropriated the role of Rapunzel - the fairy tale character with very long hair who was locked in a tower because of her beauty. The performance consisted of climbing to the top of the Torre de los Vientos, an artist run centre in Mexico City, and letting down a 40 foot hairpiece that was attached to her own already exceptionally long hair. As she began to count from the top of the Torre she threw little red sachets containing maple syrup filled vials down to the audience below. This work combined elements of display and engagement, offering to visitors "tokens" from Canada.

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Staring-Abandon

Work ID: 62258

Description: Installation: Musée Rimouski. Staring-Abandon uses glass balls attached to translucent suspended tubes where water is flowing within it. The projected sound uses layered voices reading / whispering French texts, mainly from Luce Irigaray, about water

Measurements: Installation: 12’ x 12’,

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Wish Station

Work ID: 62262

Description: Participants were asked to write a wish and seal it in an envelope. For exchange of their written wish they received a package with a wishbone (made from porcelain). They then chose to break it with a friend or loved one, or with the Wishbone giver herself

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Wish Station

Work ID: 62264

Description: Participants were asked to write a wish and seal it in an envelope. For exchange of their written wish they received a package with a wishbone (made from porcelain). They then chose to break it with a friend or loved one, or with the Wishbone giver herself

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Wish Station

Work ID: 62260

Description: Participants were asked to write a wish and seal it in an envelope. For exchange of their written wish they received a package with a wishbone (made from porcelain). They then chose to break it with a friend or loved one, or with the Wishbone giver herself

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Wish Station

Work ID: 62261

Description: Participants were asked to write a wish and seal it in an envelope. For exchange of their written wish they received a package with a wishbone (made from porcelain). They then chose to break it with a friend or loved one, or with the Wishbone giver herself

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Wish Station

Work ID: 62259

Description: Participants were asked to write a wish and seal it in an envelope. For exchange of their written wish they received a package with a wishbone (made from porcelain). They then chose to break it with a friend or loved one, or with the Wishbone giver herself

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Wish Station

Work ID: 62263

Description: Participants were asked to write a wish and seal it in an envelope. For exchange of their written wish they received a package with a wishbone (made from porcelain). They then chose to break it with a friend or loved one, or with the Wishbone giver herself

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Fleeting wanderings

Work ID: 62265

Description: Fleeting wanderings. A false wall was installed made from plastic acetate called illusion plastic, which appeared to be a thick glass or ice brick wall. As a visitor walked from one end of the space to the other, the colour image flipped from the chandelier to dancing figures — this process is called lenticular. The interior stereo sound combined a song from the movie Cinderella (right speaker) and the famous French song by the singer Dalida (left speaker) called Parole — meaning words.

Measurements: Installation: 3m x 3m x 3m

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Fleeting wanderings

Work ID: 62266

Description: Fleeting wanderings. A false wall was installed made from plastic acetate called illusion plastic, which appeared to be a thick glass or ice brick wall. As a visitor walked from one end of the space to the other, the colour image flipped from the chandelier to dancing figures — this process is called lenticular. The interior stereo sound combined a song from the movie Cinderella (right speaker) and the famous French song by the singer Dalida (left speaker) called Parole — meaning words.

Measurements: detail/détail: 240 x 150 cm

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Overcast

Work ID: 62269

Description: Installation. Overcast is in a room at Hotel Isabel, Mexico City. Entering the room a blue border was marked with the text “Sumirse” (to sink into). There was a pile in the room where viewers could take one with them Water shaped drops were hung throughout the room. Viewers entered and sat on the beds looking up into the installation. A video on the monitor was showing of waves collapsing upside down.

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Overflow

Work ID: 62272

Description: Overflow. On the upper balcony entrance of City Hall, drop-shaped lenticular photographs were installed. As one walks by each drop changes colour, imitating the shimmering of light reflection on water.

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Overcast

Work ID: 62270

Description: Installation. Overcast is in a room at Hotel Isabel, Mexico City. Entering the room a blue border was marked with the text “Sumirse” (to sink into). There was a pile in the room where viewers could take one with them Water shaped drops were hung throughout the room. Viewers entered and sat on the beds looking up into the installation. A video on the monitor was showing of waves collapsing upside down.

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Adieu (an ode)

Work ID: 62267

Description: Adieu (an ode). The main image is taken from the painting Adieu by Alfred Guillou, while the second image flipping images is of a collapsing wave.

Measurements: 120 x 78.75 cm

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Overflow

Work ID: 62273

Description: Overflow. On the upper balcony entrance of City Hall, drop-shaped lenticular photographs were installed. As one walks by each drop changes colour, imitating the shimmering of light reflection on water.

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Adieu (an ode)

Work ID: 62268

Description: Adieu (an ode). The main image is taken from the painting Adieu by Alfred Guillou, while the second image flipping images is of a collapsing wave.

Measurements: 121 x 78.75 cm

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Overcast

Work ID: 62271

Description: Installation. Overcast is in a room at Hotel Isabel, Mexico City. Entering the room a blue border was marked with the text “Sumirse” (to sink into). There was a pile in the room where viewers could take one with them Water shaped drops were hung throughout the room. Viewers entered and sat on the beds looking up into the installation. A video on the monitor was showing of waves collapsing upside down.

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Deluge (Part 1)

Work ID: 62276

Description: Installation. Deluge (Part 1) consists of 100 tiled images. The images are a combination of personally photographed or found imagery of passageways, hallways and bridges. Juxtaposed, which flips horizontally between the image, is a blue-green colour field and the third images is of a waterway - rivers, lakes, waterfalls. This flip fluctuates like reflections on water.

Measurements: 160xm x 60xm

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Diluvian Lure

Work ID: 62283

Description: Diluvian Lure. Three large lenticular photographs use imagery from Pre-Raphaelite paintings, sea anemone and Italian landscapes, that merge into one another. Using the process of lenticular - where the images shift from one to the other when walking by them - different parts of the image appear and disappear.

Measurements: Three panels/trois panneaux: 90 x 120 cm

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Deluge (Part 1)

Work ID: 62277

Description: Installation. Deluge (Part 1) consists of 100 tiled images. The images are a combination of personally photographed or found imagery of passageways, hallways and bridges. Juxtaposed, which flips horizontally between the image, is a blue-green colour field and the third images is of a waterway - rivers, lakes, waterfalls. This flip fluctuates like reflections on water.

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Torrential Drift, [installation view]

Work ID: 62285

Description: Torrential Drift. A five minute video loop taken from a gondola ride in the early morning hours of Venice. Captured are the reflections of the surrounding architecture while passing through the canal, while the sound, heard through wireless headphones, combines the natural sounds of the environment against an overly of voices that are reciting text taken from Luce Irigaray's Marine Lover.

Measurements: 7’ projection de 7 pieds

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Deluge (Part 1)

Work ID: 62274

Description: Installation. Deluge (Part 1) consists of 100 tiled images. The images are a combination of personally photographed or found imagery of passageways, hallways and bridges. Juxtaposed, which flips horizontally between the image, is a blue-green colour field and the third images is of a waterway - rivers, lakes, waterfalls. This flip fluctuates like reflections on water.

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Deluge (Part 1)

Work ID: 62275

Description: Installation. Deluge (Part 1) consists of 100 tiled images. The images are a combination of personally photographed or found imagery of passageways, hallways and bridges. Juxtaposed, which flips horizontally between the image, is a blue-green colour field and the third images is of a waterway - rivers, lakes, waterfalls. This flip fluctuates like reflections on water.

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Diluvian Lure

Work ID: 62282

Description: Diluvian Lure. Three large lenticular photographs use imagery from Pre-Raphaelite paintings, sea anemone and Italian landscapes, that merge into one another. Using the process of lenticular - where the images shift from one to the other when walking by them - different parts of the image appear and disappear.

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Torrential Drift, [video still]

Work ID: 62286

Description: Torrential Drift. A five minute video loop taken from a gondola ride in the early morning hours of Venice. Captured are the reflections of the surrounding architecture while passing through the canal, while the sound, heard through wireless headphones, combines the natural sounds of the environment against an overly of voices that are reciting text taken from Luce Irigiray's Marine Lover.

Measurements: 7’ projection de 7 pieds

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Diluvian Lure

Work ID: 62280

Description: Diluvian Lure. Three large lenticular photographs use imagery from Pre-Raphaelite paintings, sea anemone and Italian landscapes, that merge into one another. Using the process of lenticular - where the images shift from one to the other when walking by them - different parts of the image appear and disappear.

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Deluge (Part 1)

Work ID: 62279

Description: Installation. Deluge (Part 1) consists of 100 tiled images. The images are a combination of personally photographed or found imagery of passageways, hallways and bridges. Juxtaposed, which flips horizontally between the image, is a blue-green colour field and the third images is of a waterway - rivers, lakes, waterfalls. This flip fluctuates like reflections on water.

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Diluvian Lure

Work ID: 62281

Description: Diluvian Lure. Three large lenticular photographs use imagery from Pre-Raphaelite paintings, sea anemone and Italian landscapes, that merge into one another. Using the process of lenticular - where the images shift from one to the other when walking by them - different parts of the image appear and disappear.

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Deluge (Part 1)

Work ID: 62278

Description: Installation. Deluge (Part 1) consists of 100 tiled images. The images are a combination of personally photographed or found imagery of passageways, hallways and bridges. Juxtaposed, which flips horizontally between the image, is a blue-green colour field and the third images is of a waterway - rivers, lakes, waterfalls. This flip fluctuates like reflections on water.

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Torrential Drift, [video still]

Work ID: 62284

Description: Torrential Drift. A five minute video loop taken from a gondola ride in the early morning hours of Venice. Captured are the reflections of the surrounding architecture while passing through the canal, while the sound, heard through wireless headphones, combines the natural sounds of the environment against an overly of voices that are reciting text taken from Luce Irigiray's Marine Lover.

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Where You Left Me

Work ID: 62287

Description: Outdoor installation on Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice on Via Garibaldi, Venice. This image of a woman standing with a suitcase, looking out over the water, presents the moment of decision-making. We do not know what has just occurred, where she may be going or coming from as she looks out to the water evoking the route already proposed by the castles.

Measurements: 208.28 x 274.32 cm/pouces

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Where You Left Me

Work ID: 62288

Description: Outdoor installation on Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice on Via Garibaldi, Venice. This image of a woman standing with a suitcase, looking out over the water, presents the moment of decision-making. We do not know what has just occurred, where she may be going or coming from as she looks out to the water evoking the route already proposed by the castles.

Measurements: 210.82 x 274.32 cm/pouces

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A Deeper Thunder

Work ID: 68419

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