‘People’, León Ferrari, c.1982, 2007 | Tate
Tag: migration
Adam Patterson, Still from Fire is the only warmth he knows in England, 2015.
Mona Hatoum. (British of Palestinian origin, born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1952). + and -. 1994-2004. Sand , steel, aluminum, and electric motor, 10 5/8″ (27 cm) high x 13′ 1 ½” (400.1 cm) diameter. Fractional and promised gift of Jerry Speyer and purchase. © 2007 Mona Hatoum
“This work is a large-scale re-creation of the kinetic sculpture Self-Erasing Drawing Hatoum made in 1979. Replacing conventional artists’ tools (pencil and paper, paint and canvas) with a motorized, toothed metal arm and a circular bed of sand, Hatoum mechanizes the practices of mark-making and erasure. At a rate of five rotations per minute, the sculpture’s hypnotic and continual grooving and smoothing of sand evokes polarities of building and destroying, existence and disappearance, displacement and migration.“
–MoMA
Janine Antoni and Paul Ramirez Jonas, Migration, 2002, channel video playing on two monitors side by side, 58:03 minute loopDimensions variable