Thursday, 23 December 2010

Painful





 
Susie Macmurray
piece entitled 'Window' black nappa leather, 43 kg adamantine dressmakers pins, tailors dummy


Louise Richardson

The piece is mesmerising. A dress hangs suspended from a pole and is, for all intents and purposes, made of fur. Step up and study it more closely, and with some difficulty the optical illusion shifts to reveal that the fur is not fur at all, but thousands of nails painstakingly pushed through a length of muslin to settle into a pattern of copper swirls and waves.

Mona Hatoum

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