Mike Kelley
Anthropometry: Princess Helena
http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/
Ana Mario Hernando
'La Montana' (installation), 2009, MCA Denver
Ana Maria Hernando's installation, "The Mountain Brings Us Boats Full of Lilies," is part of the "Pure Pleasure" exhibit at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum just reopened after a four-month renovation. (Matt McClain, Special to The Denver Post )
"La Montana Trae Barcas de Azucenas" (The Mountain Brings Us Boats Full of Lilies)
Variable dimensions
2008
Variable dimensions
2008
Random acts of kindness
Ana Maria Hernando's textiles investigate the transparent acts of humanity that hold our lives and communities together
'I find transparent acts everywhere. My most pressing image would be that of women embroidering tablecloths, washing, ironing. Later these embroidered beauties are stained, and covered with food. Hours of work have become the background. these acts of transparent love that makes no sense, and have no place in accounting books, inspire me.'
- Jessica Hemmings
Taken from Embroidery January/February 2010 issue
Mona Hatuom
Socle du monde' (Base of the World) 1992-93
wooden structure, steel plates, magnets and
iron filings, 163.6 x 199.5 x 199.5 cm.
The piece consists of a large metal cube covered with metal filings which cling to magnets on the surface of the cube. The magnetic attraction and repulsion forces the filings into a convoluted, intestine-shaped pattern suggestive of a teeming organism.
"Keffieh," human hair on cotton, 1993-1999,
collection Peter Norton, Santa Monica
The Body » 'Van Gogh’s Back'
1995, photograph on paper, 600 x 403 mm
'Hanging Garden'
Mona Hatoum is a lebanese-born artist who is now living and working in london. Her work explores issues of fear, fascination and the body, expressed through performance, video, installations and photography.
Her 'hanging garden' consists of 770 jute sacks, stacked to head level. all together, they form a 10 meter long wall,which looks much like the sandbag barricades used as defense from enemy gunfire during battle and other war zones such as checkpoints and border crossings. despite the associations we have with the image of these barricades, the sacks are filled with seeds that sprout, greening the wall and expressing more of an image of growth and prosperity. the piece deals with the friction between notions of home, security, warmth and their opposites.
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