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Призрак (ghost)
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Knotted horsehair and fishing line
7 feet height, floor to top of piece x 5 ft. width x 34
inches depth
(table surface is
30 inches up from floor, so the horsehair portion is 54 inches height)
The sketch (prototype) of this installation, depicted in my
portfolio, was created in December 2018.
This installation memorializes the horse that was killed
during the making of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Audrei Rubley.
Horsehair Installation
This piece memorializes the horse that was killed- stabbed
and sent stumbling down a staircase-during the making of Tarkovsky’s Andrei
Rubley. This horse was purchased from a gule factory for this purpose, and
returned to the same establishment after. Needless to say, knowing this
provokes a personal reaction of horror and I can hardly watch the scene. But
ponder this. If you or I were a horse at the inescapable end of life, would we
prefer to die in a Tarkovsky film or in a glue factory? The time I spent
knotting the coarse black hair of this installation offers time to ruminate
maybe similar to the purpose of the act of creating Victorian hair wreaths of
deceased loved ones.
While taking in this piece, the weightless forms shifts with
the movements of the viewers’ eyes. This and the overall shape of the
installation references both a slow-motion tumble down a staircase and also an
upward-floating spirit.
Bio
Through her art, Becky Slemmons searches for truths that are
common throughout multiple cultures. She works in the disciplines of drawing,
painting, video, performance, fiber, glass, sounds, and book arts. Her
education includes an MFA from MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Mt.
Royal School of Art, and a BFA from the University of Michigan. Becky has shown
her work in Berlin, Germany; Seoul, South Korea; New York; Brooklyn, NY;
Portland, OR; Baltimore, MD; Washington D.C.; and Pittsburgh, PA. She has
spoken about her work at the Andy Warhol Museum. Slemmons was awarded a Barbara
Deming Memorial Fund Grant, a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Collaborative
Fellowship Residency and a Heinz endowment to attend VCCA residency. She has
served tow artist residencies in Germany and in Estonia, among others in the
US. Slemmons has collaborated with choreographers and dancers. She also
assistant-directed “Find Our Wings”, a community video documentary project,
serving six at-risk teenage African-American girls in Baltimore. She currently
is an adjunct professor at University of Pittsburgh, instruct in the summer and
Carnegie Mellon University, and previously adjuncted at MICA. She lives and
works in Pittsburgh.
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