installationarts:

Cornelia Parker

The Maybe

1995

Installation at the Serpentine Gallery, London

In this installation, Tilda Swinton played the toughest role in a career devoted to challenging ones: herself asleep or apparently so. For seven consecutive days, eight hours a day, she lay motionless, eyes closed, in a raised, glass casket – a contemporary Sleeping Beauty in jeans and deck shoes, subject to intense scrutiny and speculation.

Damien Hirst, Adam and Eve (Banished from the Garden, )19992210 x 4267 x 1219 mm | 87 x 168 x 48 in, Glass, painted steel, silicone rubber, autopsy tables, drainage buckets, mannequins, chicken skins, autopsy equipment, cotton sheets, surgical instruments, needle and thread, latex gloves and sandwich, Vitrines