Video: Frozen explosions in installations by Cornelia Parker
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Destruction and creation - usually these two concepts are opposed to each other, but in the work of the Englishwoman Cornelia Parker (Cornelia Parker) they are inextricably linked. After all, the creation of each of her installations is preceded by destruction. And the works themselves resemble explosions frozen in time and space.
Cornelia Parker's most famous work is the installation Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View. To create it, the author had to resort to the help of the British Army, whose soldiers, at the request of Cornelia, smashed an old garden shed to pieces. Parker then hung the pieces of wood in the gallery, creating an explosion effect. In the middle of the installation, the author placed a light source, as a result of which the shadows on the walls of the gallery began to seem like fragments scattering to the sides.
Anything can become the basis for Cornelia Parker's installations: she hangs pieces of chalk, fragments of stones, wood in the air. But in any case, the material is taken with meaning: for example, the work "Edge of England" ("Edge of England") consists of broken pieces of Beachy Head - the tallest chalk cliff in Great Britain, located on the south coast.
“I revive objects that are considered to be destroyed … All my work is about the potential of materials, even if it seems that they have already lost all their potential,” says Cornelia Parker of her installations.
Cornelia Parker was born in Cheshire in 1956 and currently lives and works in London. Her work is represented in private and public collections around the world, including MOMA (New York), the Tate Gallery, British Council, De Young Museum (San Francisco), Yale Center for British Art (New Haven). In 2010, Cornelia Parker was awarded the Order of the British Empire (Officer).
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