Kiki Smith: Sojourn
December 12, 2009 | Levent OZLER
Kiki Smith: Sojourn, a major site-specific installation that explores the ideas of creative inspiration and the cycle of life in relation to women artists, will be on view February 12 through September 12, 2010, in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
The exhibition will draw from a variety of work by Kiki Smith in a range of media including cast objects, unique sculpture, and works on paper.
The artist will also incorporate her work into two of the Brooklyn Museum's eighteenth-century period rooms in the nearby Decorative Arts galleries.
Inspired, in part, by an important eighteenth-century New England needlework, Prudence Punderson's The First, Second and Last Scenes of Mortality (Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford), Smith focuses on a variety of universal experiences, from the milestones of birth and death to the quotidian, such as the daily chores of domestic life.
She also analyzes the artist's creative development and associates it with the stages in a lifetime, beginning with the creative awakening or birth and followed by a period of exploration, the achievement of artistic maturity, the later part of life, and, finally, death.
The exhibition's gallery space will be divided into segmented rooms containing the sculptures and components of the installation.
more: brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/kiki_smith/ (57)
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