Flow, Body Scape

Artist Nadège Desgenétez (French, born 1973)

Place of OriginFrance

Date2016

DimensionsElbow (vertical) 24 × 13 × 7 in. (61 × 33 × 17.8 cm)
Wrist (horizontal) 15 × 12 × 10 1/2 in. (38.1 × 30.5 × 26.7 cm)
Overall: 39 3/4 × 29 1/2 × 3/8 in. (101 × 74.9 × 1 cm)
Mount: 40 11/16 × 35 1/16 × 29 3/8 in. (103.4 × 89 × 74.6 cm)

Mediumglass, metal

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by Rita Barbour Kern, and Gift of Richard C. and Betty G. Veler, by exchange

Object number

2022.25A-C

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 04

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.

Label TextFlow, 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, suggest 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.”