Ann Hamilton: habitus

“Held by cloth’s hand, we are swaddled at birth, covered in sleep, and wound in death,” muses artist Ann Hamilton. Hamilton, rather than merely documenting the experience of her vast immersive 2016–17 installation, here offers a document that is as much a part of the project as its three-dimensional counterparts. Lush photography, archival imagery, and lucid prose come together to help expand upon Hamilton’s ideas about the fabric of and in our lives. Like a thread through cloth, these individual images and words weave together strands of history, technology, poetry, and motion into one extraordinary and compelling experience.