The Hammock
Artist: Pinaree Sanpitak (Thai, born 1961)
Date: 2014
Dimensions:
H. (highest point) 168 in.; W. (post to post) 75 in.; D. (hammock) 36 in.
Medium: Blown glass and steel
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2015.54
Label Text:Produced at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion as part of an artist residency in 2014, Pinaree Sanpitak’s The Hammock comprises approximately 700 large glass “beads” strung together on steel wires. The hammock form comes out of a body of work in which Sanpitak fashioned the hanging beds from Thai printed cottons of the type that were passed out in relief bags after severe flooding in Thailand in 2011/12.
She explained of these works that the hammocks “represent the situation of precarious times balancing traditional and modern values. The hammocks are presence of the body, bare and contemplating. The body waiting to slow down. The body floating. The body just hanging by a thread. Thus a situation I believe we all share.” This sense of floating, which suggests weightlessness, is enhanced in Toledo’s hammock by the inherent transparency of glass.
You are invited to lie on the hammock, but only one person at a time. No standing on the sculpture. Small children must be supervised by an adult.
She explained of these works that the hammocks “represent the situation of precarious times balancing traditional and modern values. The hammocks are presence of the body, bare and contemplating. The body waiting to slow down. The body floating. The body just hanging by a thread. Thus a situation I believe we all share.” This sense of floating, which suggests weightlessness, is enhanced in Toledo’s hammock by the inherent transparency of glass.
You are invited to lie on the hammock, but only one person at a time. No standing on the sculpture. Small children must be supervised by an adult.
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