Dispersions (no. 22)
Anne Wilson
2013
- Medium
- Linen, satin damask weave, embroidered with cotton, polyester, and/or silk, and human hair
- Dimensions
- 64.5 × 64.5 × 3.8 cm (25 3/8 × 25 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)21st Centuryfiber artChicagoneedlework (visual works)Textile
About
The effect of this textile is highly ambiguous: when viewing the work from a distance, one wonders whether the areas of damage were caused by bullets, cigarette burns, or something else. A tension is created by the play of various contrasts: the etheral (comet-like celestial forms) versus the mundane (bourgeois family linens); the handworked "art object" (stitching) versus the machine-made damask background; and informal versus formal patterns.
