Ann Hamilton Biography

Winner in 1993 of the MacArthur genius award and American representative at the Venice Biennial in 1999, her "Weeping Wall" was a stand out at the Carnegie International Exhibition of 2000/2001. In recent work she has experimented with exchanging one sense organ for another. Since most of Ms. Hamilton's works are installations, this is a rare opportunity for admirers to own work by this distinguished artist.

Ms. Hamilton discusses this work where mouth and fingers become the aperture of a miniature pinhole camera so as "…to have the orifice of the place where speech exits the body actually become the eye."

"Over a number of years, I devised pinhole cameras to insert into my mouth seeing in fact how much the shape of the mouth is very much the same shape as the eye and seeing myself become almost the pupil within."

"…to sometimes invert the location of one sense to another part of the body…[from] those kind of dislocations…we come to see things differently."

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