Cornelia Parker & Tilda Swinton

Catégorie: art, exhibition - 6 Commentaires
28 June 2010

The Maybe. 1995. Installation at the Serpentine Gallery, London

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CORNELIA PARKER is an English sculptor and installation artist best known for her intervention with site-specific work, for large-scale installations. For some years her work has been concerned with formalising things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something that is quiet and contemplative. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary. More recently her attention has turned to issues of globalisation, consumerism and the mass-media.

In CORNELIA PARKER‘s installation at the Serpentine Gallery, The Maybe, 1995, TILDA SWINTON played the toughest role in a career devoted to challenging ones: herself asleep or apparently so. For seven consecutive days, eight hours a day, she lay motionless, eyes closed, in a raised, glass casket – a contemporary Sleeping Beauty in jeans and deck shoes, subject to intense scrutiny and speculation.




6 commentaires pour “Cornelia Parker & Tilda Swinton”

  1. The Maybe – Sleeping Beauty – Ketli Tiitsar, le 27 March, 2011 à 23:05 Said:

    […] my own short and mild glass case experience I found from my notebook project which moved me long time ago, and was mentioned last year in Mexico in Caroline Broadhead’s […]

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  4. hearty magazine | Sleeping Beauty Tilda Swinton, le 25 March, 2013 à 20:19 Said:

    […] The MoMA installation, which will happen six more times before the year is up, is actually the second incarnation of the work. In 1995, Swinton lay completely still with eyes closed in an identical chamber for seven consecutive days, eight hours a day in London’s Serpentine Gallery as a “contemporary Sleeping Beauty.” […]

  5. #6946: Actrice Tilda Swinton slaapt zes uur in vitrine MoMa – ‘is ze gedrogeerd?’ - Scoopworks Nieuws, le 25 March, 2013 à 20:23 Said:

    […] onaangekondigd opnieuw ‘uitgevoerd’ door de Oscarwinnares. Opnieuw, want ze was al eens eerder slapend te bewonderen in de Serpentine Gallery in 1995 en een jaar later in Museo Barracco in […]

  6. Tilda Swinton | Extraordinary Living Blogs, le 19 November, 2013 à 08:54 Said:

    […] years ago Tilda was at the Serpentine Gallery asleep inside a glass […]