In collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art, the famously innovative and internationally renowned installation artist Ann Hamilton presents a sweeping exploration of her nontraditional use of photographic media across a four-decade career. “Ann Hamilton: still and moving • the tactile image” traces the evolution of her practice, from some of her earliest photographs, including the 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 series previously shown at Robischon Gallery, to a new, site-specific project created specifically for the Museum.
Throughout the exhibition, Hamilton’s multifaceted and poetically attuned responses to place, continue the artist's well-known intent to expand the boundaries between the senses. Sight, sound, touch, and time, function as materials in Hamilton's pioneering practice, resulting in works that are both deeply embodied and conceptually rigorous.
Featuring a monumental site-specific installation of scanned, diminutive figures drawn from the Museum’s collection, Hamilton's signature approach of presenting videos that glide over the perimeter of the walls, are experienced in tandem with the artist's formative early works. The comprehensive museum exhibition, “still and moving • the tactile image” reveals photography as a “central spine” of Hamilton’s practice—one that has sustained and transformed her work over decades.
Available in conjunction with the museum exhibition is a new hardcover book of the same name, which features the exhibited works on view, a statement from the artist, and a scholarly essay by Barbara Tennenbaum, Curator of Photography for the Cleveland Art Museum.