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Indepth Arts News:
"Ann Hamilton at hand"
2002-03-27 until 2002-07-14
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin, ,
IE
This is the first showing in Ireland by this important American artist who represented
the USA at the 1997 Venice Biennale and who has had major one-person shows at DIA
and MoMA in New York and at Tate Liverpool. In 1993 she was awarded the prestigious
MacArthur Fellowship Award.
The exhibition encompasses installation, video and photography, creating emotive
spaces through a combination of sight, sound and touch and spanning her practice
from the early 1980s to the present day. Hamilton’s works ritualise mundane gestures,
imagining simple objects and actions on an enormous scale, resulting, in the creation
of numerous elaborate and labour-intensive installations over the past decade. The
exhibition, which is curated by Brenda McParland, includes the first ever European
showing of the dramatic installation 'at hand', 2001, which comprises light leaves of
paper floating endlessly down from the ceiling like snow to an accompanying sound
piece.
The exhibition focuses on acts of speaking and hearing. Key to the show is the series
of 4 video works - 'aleph', 1992/1993, 'dissections…they said it was an experiment',
1988/1993, 'linings', 1990/1993 and 'the capacity of absorption', 1988/1993. Each
video displays a tightly-cropped image of the artist rolling pebbles in her mouth,
allowing water to spill in or out of her mouth, onto her throat and into her ear. These
simple isolated gestures, which seem to block hearing and speaking, are repeated to
abstraction. Key photographic works include the face to face series from 2001 and the
body object series from the early 1980s.
A new monograph on the artist, by Abrams publications, accompanies the exhibition.
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