Hybrid Spirit
> Adejoke Tugbiyele 2020 Courtesy of the artist and Melrose Gallery.L. Series 1, Warrior Spirit/ Gathering Energy, 2020. Photo by Clint Strydom.R. Series 2, The Self/Spear, 2020. Photo by Clint Strydom. These works were produced in South Africa. ‘Ase’ is energy or lifeforce within Yoruba cosmology. ‘Ase’ exists in all living and nonliving things, human […]
Controller of the Universe
> Damián Ortega 2007 Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Hewitt Collection, Smithsonian Design Museum. Controller of the Universe is a frozen explosion of hand tools hovering in an almost dreamlike state. These saws, planes, and axes suggest alternative ways to look at tools, in the hope that the experience will transform the visitor’s own […]
En el aire (In the Air)
> Teresa Margolles 2003 Site specific installation at the MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST 2004.© MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST. Photo: Axel Schneider.Courtesy of the artist and MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST. In In the Air a machine blows soap bubbles into an empty room. The water in the soap bubbles comes from a morgue; […]