Issue 01
Women in Art: Quiet Obliteration
Seven artists, one tool, seven destinations
Repetition, rooms, wire, thread and light, used to make isolation visible without making it monstrous. Seven chapters. It ends.
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A contact sheet of seven works — a painted net, a graphite grid, a room built of salvaged doors, nineteen fibreglass cylinders, a looped wire form, a room of red thread, and a dress made of light bulbs.
The path — seven stations, and then it ends
- 01Dissolve — The dots are the holesYayoi Kusama4 min
- 02Steady — A grid drawn by a hand that is breathingAgnes Martin4 min
- 03Hold — The door was somebody's doorLouise Bourgeois4 min
- 04Fail gently — Nineteen attempts at the same bucketEva Hesse4 min
- 05Let air through — One wire, looped, until it becomes a roomRuth Asawa4 min
- 06Hold absence — Fifty thousand keys, none of them yoursChiharu Shiota4 min
- 07Become light — She wore the circuitAtsuko Tanaka4 min