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An upright paper lamp glows warmly from within a triangular armature with string lights spilling out below. It is suspended above a table surface from two crooked rods that bridge two circular-shaped rods.A dark image illuminated by a dozen small paper lanterns that sit on the floor. The lanterns are triangular in shape and are suspended from cylindrical armatures.

Artist Edition

Joan Jonas x FWM

Untitled (lamp), ed. # 18-22

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Description

During her 2010 residency, Joan Jonas drew on Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy, to produce a multi-sensory performance and installation that used a free-association method to create a personal, eccentric visual language of our time. ⁠
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Jonas returned to FWM a few years later to make this edition of paper lamps using steel, Japanese paper, and LED lighting.

Joan Jonas, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.

Stainless steel, handmade Japanese paper, LED lighting
8 x 11 x 14 inches
Edition of 22, 4 APs (price listed for editions 1-10)

Meet the Artist

Joan Jonas

During her 2010 FWM residency, multimedia and performance artist Joan Jonas used a free-association method to create a personal, eccentric visual language, bringing her interpretation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy to life while allowing her viewers to experience the resulting work without any preconceptions. Both the medieval era of Dante and our own time, she noted, are periods of extraordinary change.

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