FLY TOGETHER, 2017 by Ann Hamilton
Birds, the color blue (indigo), suspensions, fabric, fragility, ephemerality, and thread are all elements that recur in Hamilton’s work to evoke questions of space, collective voice, “communities past and labor present,” memory, and imagination. This particular image is drawn from ABC books particularly meant for early childhood education.
With two songbirds holding cloth between their beaks, Hamilton explores the potential made possible through our own mutual cooperation. She asks, “using their mouths as we use our hands, perhaps they hold a piece of the sky? A cloth that will protect or warm?” It’s impossible to know, she observes, but “we see that to carry the cloth’s weight, to allow the cloth’s movement, they must hold with gentleness and tenacity. They must work and fly together.”
Ann Hamilton’s Fly Together is on view December 13th, 2017 – January 15th, 2018 at:
– Creative Time Headquarters, 59 East 4th Street, NY, NY
– 21C Museum Hotel Durham, 111 Corcoran St, Durham, NC
– University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, 3821 USF Holly Drive, Tampa, FL
– Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
– RISD Museum, 224 Benefit St, Providence, RI
– KMAC Museum, 715 W Main St, Louisville, KY
– Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY
– Ferrovia Studios, 17 Railroad Ave, Kingston, NY
– Texas State Galleries, 233 West Sessom Drive, San Marcos, TX
– The Commons, in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1340 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS
– The Union for Contemporary Art, 2423 N 24th Street, Omaha, NE
– Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ
About Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surroundings of her large-scale multi-media installations. Using time as process and material, her methods of making serve as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of communities past and of labor present. In 2016, Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum hosted habitus, a solo exhibition by Hamilton that took place across three sites.
Video by César Martinez, Creative Time’s Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow