Ann Hamilton (USA, b. 1956) --- --- (side by side.coats) 2018/2023
Hamilton conceived this work for both a performance and an installation in Guimaraes, a former textile manufacturing hub in northern Portugal. Initially, she sourced fleeces from a local farmer who bred heritage sheep as part of a sustainability initiative. Then, with some difficulty given the city’s hardscrabble economy, she amassed worn woollen coats from thrift shops. Needle-felting the raw, unwashed fleeces – which still hold the shape and smell of sheep – into garments’ tailored forms, Hamilton underscored enduring interdependencies: between human and animal, manufactured and organic, nurture and sacrifice.
Ann Hamilton (USA, b. 1956) --- --- (side by side.coats) 2018/2023
Hamilton conceived this work for both a performance and an installation in Guimaraes, a former textile manufacturing hub in northern Portugal. Initially, she sourced fleeces from a local farmer who bred heritage sheep as part of a sustainability initiative. Then, with some difficulty given the city’s hardscrabble economy, she amassed worn woollen coats from thrift shops. Needle-felting the raw, unwashed fleeces – which still hold the shape and smell of sheep – into garments’ tailored forms, Hamilton underscored enduring interdependencies: between human and animal, manufactured and organic, nurture and sacrifice.