What are you trying to say Ms Hamilton?
on Sheila Ash (India), 05/Dec/2016 01:01, 34 days ago
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You erectas a doorway within a brick walla gigantic pair of buttocksClutched by a pair of hands.You suspend in mid airin front of a brick cornera clothes hangerbearing a suitof brick patterned weave.You place a pebble filled,thigh high, high heeledladies leather booton a pedestalwith lichens and fungisaprophytically seeping from its seams and stitcheslike a decaying tree trunk.These material juxtapositionsThese unnatural pairingsJar our eyesCompel us to touch, to sniffIn expectations of flesh givingof threads looseningof polish smelling.But that’s not what happens.Instead our minds reelbaffled by the bumconfused by the crotch.Should we put on the suitand like an asshole walk throughsome mushroom powered psychedelic tripto unravel and experience the installation’s truth?No.we just standbemused and bewildered by your artasking“what ARE you trying to say?”© Sheila Ash, 2016https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/26/turner-prize-2016-review-tate-britain-micheal-dean-anthea-hamilton-helen-marten-josephine-prydeashramblings
