Projects
1999-2000
Precarious Bodies
Precarious Bodies, aluminium, bronze, and sound, variable dimensions, average object size 43.5 × 19 × 18 cm, 2000
Precarious Bodies, wood, clay, and sound, variable dimensions, average object size 46 × 15.3 × 12.7 cm, 1999
Precarious Bodies, Scroll drawing, print and pencil on vellum paper, 61 × 137 cm, 1999-2000
Precarious Bodies, video, 2000
David Driskell Thesis Excellence Award, 2000
Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibition, 2000
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
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The sound installation was integrated by wood/clay and aluminum/bronze objects that contained sound. Sound was digitally created, it was the mixture of the sound of my voice with the translated sound from drawings or from pictures of the interior of the metal objects.
The video installation put together a scroll drawing and a video wall projection. The video showed me writing in the scroll, emphasizing the analogy between the objects and the human beings.
Precarious Bodies referred to my response when I tried to intuit the mystery of death, through the question I recited: “What are we?” The answer had shifted from a notion of the body's existence as ephemeral and fragile, to the idea of the heavy body, a restraining place for the soul, but also the instrument through which it manifests itself. In short, bodies, whether heavy or fragile, were asking, pleading, giving thanks.
Precarious Bodies, sound
