Holding and Breaking

Lorna Simpson (1960 –)

Lorna Simpson is a groundbreaking American photographer & multimedia artist exploring identity, gender, race & history through photo-text installations, film & sculpture. First African-American woman at the Venice Biennale (1990).

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (더럼, 미국)

듀크 대학교 내셔 미술관을 만나보세요 – 프리콜롬비아 유물과 현대 미술이 어우러져 대화와 탐구를 이끌어내는 역동적인 공간입니다. 멋진 전시와 건축학적 아름다움을 경험해 보세요.

In this photograph, Lorna Simpson uses sequential images to tell a story. The first shows, from behind, the upper torso of an ambiguously gendered Black subject. The second shows a glass held in the figure’s hands, and the third shows the glass shattered on the floor below, with the words “an agreement” in bright green. From its original form to its broken state, the glass can be understood to represent the contract of an agreement that has not been honored. Simpson’s use of photographs in conjunction with text explores the ways in which context can affect meaning as well as the role of photography in society.

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이 작품에 대하여

제목: Holding and Breaking
작가: Lorna Simpson
제작 연도: 1992
원작 크기: 188.0 x 51.0 cm
형식: Tall
전시 장소: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
컬러 팔레트: Neutrals
채도: Monochromatic