favorite installation – Page 6 – Little Bristling Soul

Yayoi Kusama, Narcissus Sea, installation at the Yokohama Triennale, 2001, approximately 2,000 stainless mirror balls floating in the sea alongside the Kisha-Michi Promenade.

Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer, 1979. © The Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo: Jon Abbott

Mary Kelly, Gloria Patri, 12 disks, 6 trophies, and 5 shields, the Masculine Masquerade exhibition, MIT List visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, MA

Rebecca Horn, Miroir du Lac (Mirror of the Lake), 2004, iron, mirrors, lamp, slide projector, slide, motor mirrors

Felix Gonzales Torres – Untitled , (placebo) 1991 – candies, individually wrapped in silver cellophane, endless supply, ideal weight 500-600 kg, dimension variable

Mary Kelly, Gloria Patri, 1992, detail (one of five shields)

“The dramatically-lit shields, trophies, and discs of Gloria Patri initially present riddles of texts taken out of context, narratives about the physical fitness of women. But what we are seeing here are actual media reports of battle from the war in Iraq in the early 1990s, etched onto the surface of these objects polished to a super-flat metallic shine. In a parody of the way masculinity is defined and displayed, and as part of the artist’s ongoing interrogation of gender politics, Gloria Patri considers the consequences, for women, of adopting the masculine ideal.“

–Art Basel

rebecca horn, high noon, 1991

Mona Hatoum

Image: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled” [Golden], 1993)

Text: Margaret Atwood from Interlunar

avtavr:

Kiki Smith
Mother, 1992-93
Glass and steel.
Variable dimensions.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta Purchase for the Elson Collection of Contemporary Glass.
© Kiki Smith 1998