Prestel and The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Ann Hamilton: habitus
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Description
"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 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.
Exhibition catalogue produced on the occasion of The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s multi-venue exhibition, Ann Hamilton: habitus.
12.5" x 9"
Softcover
224 pages
Editor: Sally Fisher
Contributors: Ann Hamilton, Patricia C. Phillips, Natalie Shapero, Susan Stewart, and Susan Lubowsky Talbott
ISBN: 978-3-7913-5709-6
Meet the Artist
Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton is a visual artist known for making large-scale and site-specific works that incorporate textiles and common materials to evoke a sense of place, time, and community. Her multiple collaborations with FWM have resulted in site-responsive installations, exhibitions, and editioned works.
About The Exhibition
Ann Hamilton: habitus
September 17, 2016–January 8, 2017
Cloth making—among the oldest forms of human cultural production—provides inspiration for Ann Hamilton’s multi-venue project. habitus weaves text, textile, and image together as mediums for an imaginative and tactile exchange between artist and audience.