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Ann Hamilton

malediction

Maker

Ann Hamilton (American, b. 1956 in Lima, Ohio)

Title

malediction

Year

1991

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

glass, wicker, wood

Dimensions

86.4 x 76.2 cm (34 x 30 inches) table

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund and Gift of George H. Waterman III

Object Number

2002.1

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

Containing the quality, pace, and tone of an internal dialogue, the sound of a voice reading Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and The Body Electric [both 1855] was that of a voice reading softly to oneself, and the text was perceived as recounting to oneself, as if to remember, rather than as performative projection.

Seated at a table between a bowl of raw dough and a basket used at the turn of the century to deliver bodies to the morgue, I slowly stuffed a piece of dough into my mouth until it took the form and impression of the mouth’s hollow space. The dough containing the impression of this inner orifice was then placed in the bottom of the casket. The activity, repeated slowly, half-filled the basket over the course of two weeks. -Ann Hamilton

Better Still
Looking at Still Life in the Museum Collection
Feb 06, 2004 – May 02, 2004

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Ann Hamilton (American, b. 1956 in Lima, Ohio)
malediction, 1991
Wood table and chair, enameled metal bowl, wicker casket, bread-dough mouth molds, recorded voice on compact disc
86.4 x 76.2 cm (34 x 30 inches) table
Mary B. Jackson Fund and Gift of George H. Waterman III 2002.1

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