Tag: objects

Clare Twomey, Forever, 2010-11

his work was made in response to the historic Burnap collection at the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas, USA; the collection comprises 1345 objects and one of these, the Sandbach Cup, was chosen by the artist and reproduced 1345 times with the help of Hartley Greens & Co. Leeds Pottery, a ceramics factory in northern England.

The public were able to own one of these cups if they agreed to sign a deed from the Museum that stated they would keep it forever: 10,000 people signed this agreement highlighting issues of ownership, responsibility and the notion of time.

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Damien Hirst – Nothing is a Problem for Me Anymore (2011-12)

Hirst began work on the ‘Medicine Cabinets’ while in his second year at Goldsmiths with Sinner (1988). Constructing the MDF unit at home, he filled it with the empty packaging of his grandmother’s medications, which he’d requested she leave him upon her death.

Artist’s statement:

“You can only cure people for so long and then they’re going to die anyway. You can’t arrest decay but these medicine cabinets suggest you can.”