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Congregation (work of art)

Información sobre la obra de arte

Creado
2003-2008
Artista
Ledelle Moe
Nacionalidad
Sudáfrica
Nacimiento/Muerte
1971-
Dimensiones
277 separate elements (dimensions variable)
Medio
Escultura

Crédito

Purchased with funds from the North Carolina Museum of Art Docents

Cultura
Africano

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When viewed as a group or at a distance, the hand-carved faces in Congregation may appear very similar. But upon closer inspection, each clearly has its own semblance. Moe says, “Making Congregation was a way of making sense of the space around me . . . I was able to make [these] anywhere,” throughout the U.S. and at home in South Africa. Each head varies in color and texture, depending on the region and country where Moe mixed concrete from local sand.

Congregation evolved out of Moe’s daily practice, and the aggregate marks the artist’s movements through space and time, much like a personal journal. The heads resemble a collection of delicate, freshly excavated ancient artifacts, though they are in fact weighty and of this era. Unlike Moe’s large-scale sculptures such as Collapse I in the Museum Park, which have an air of fallen monuments, these miniatures seem to have risen from the earth, newly animated and engaged with one another.

tags: repetition, identity, interdependence, order, part/whole, place, geography

Imágenes

  • Escultura de la Congregación Ledelle Moe

    Congregation

  • Escultura de la Congregación Ledelle Moe

    Congregation

  • Escultura de la Congregación Ledelle Moe

    Congregation

  • Escultura de la Congregación Ledelle Moe

    Congregation