Hannah Wilke
Gestures, 1974
Lifetime black and white photograph
12 x 17.8 cm, 4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in,
32.2 x 36.8 cm, 12 5/8 x 14 1/2 in framed
32.2 x 36.8 cm, 12 5/8 x 14 1/2 in framed
© Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACs, London
Gestures is a series of performance-based works in which Wilke faces the camera in extreme close-up and performs repetitive or durational physical actions. At times she kneads and pulls her...
Gestures is a series of performance-based works in which Wilke faces the camera in extreme close-up and performs repetitive or durational physical actions. At times she kneads and pulls her skin as if it were sculptural material. Often her gestures — rubbing her hands over her face, smiling so hard that she appears to be grimacing, sticking out her tongue — take on a loaded significance when seen in the context of gender performance.
Provenance
Collection of the artist
By descent to Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt
Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, USA
Exhibitions
Hannah Wilke: Sculpture 1960s-‘80s, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK, 24 April - 29 May 2014