Flow, Body Scape
Artist: Nadège Desgenétez (French, born 1973)
Date: 2016
Dimensions:
Elbow (vertical piece): 24 × 13 × 7 in.
Wrist (horizontal piece): 15 × 12 × 10 1/2 in.
Overall: 39 3/4 × 29 1/2 × 3/8 in. (101 × 74.9 × 1 cm)
Medium: glass, metal
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by Rita Barbour Kern, and Gift of Richard C. and Betty G. Veler, by exchange
Object number: 2022.25A-C
Label Text:Flow, Body Scape takes inspiration from Nadège Desgenétez’s own observations of the physical as well as emotional connections between place and body. The ambiguous forms of blown glass evoke figurative fragments, while the metal base, also made by Desgenétez, suggests a landscape. United, these elements reflect the artist’s need to embrace the foreignness of the new land she has chosen to call home: “Abstracted fragments echo the Eucalypt trunks and silver light that to me characterize my adopted Australian home. They draw from the body, the trees, the land to investigate relationships between foreign and familiar, softness and might, stillness and movement, air and ground.”
DescriptionGlass, metal: blown, sculpted, mirrored. Two abstracted forms of blown and mirrored glass representing an elbow (vertical) and wrist (horizontal). The glass components are affixed to a black base formed from a folded sheet of metal.
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