When I was at college studying art and art history at Skidmore in upstate New York I spent one semester learning about contemporary works. In reading New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, which my parents gave me for my birthday, I was reminded of Mona Hatoum – the British/Palestinian artist who has worked in performance and installation works of varying sizes and themes. Her piece in the catalog was the following silicon intestinal track – a piece representing her perspective on the vulnerability of our bodies.
I love the use of patterns in a biological way. Some of her other pieces remind me of the work of Design Glut with their ironic spin on household items.
Think about it.
This for some reason makes me think of my apartment as a little mouse hole and I would be a mouse changing behind a huge cheese grater in the mornings. Weird.
Her large scale installation pieces are pretty intimidating but I find that them being in white is less aggressive. I envision this as a deconstructed soccer ball.
Like the silicon intestines this piece is tactilely interesting and biological in nature. I like the subtlely and I like her generally benign pallette.
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