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| Moor, 2001, woven fabric & other items, dimensions variable |
Janine Antoni works in performance art, sculpture &
photography. She often uses her body to
create or participate in her work.
Moor is a rope made from unusual &
personal material donated by friends & family. By
twisting it all together she has created a link between all of these
people. The rope, liken to an umbilical
cord, connects things. All the material
brought together beautifully link the people in her life. Braided fabrics from friends clothing, her
grandmother’s dress, hair, a hammock, all taken apart & twisted together
connect her friends and her memories in a lifeline of thoughts. Ropes reappear in some of her other works
using
line to show relationship of her body to everything around her. She learned to walk tight rope and placed it
along the horizon line of a seascape. She
then walks along the rope as if she is walking in the horizon,
balancing on line and repeating rope line with horizon line. Then she wanted to do a piece about
falling. She started by making a rope
from hemp and fell off of it into a huge, soft pile of unwoven hemp leaving the impression
of her body in the pile.
Artinamericamagazine.com; PBSArt 21.org
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