Artist research

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is a British sculptor and installation artist. Her early installations were imbued with poetic innuendos linked to the fragility of human experience. She not only worked with scale and substance of things, but also the meaning conveyed by using found objects.
She is best known for her large scale installations such "as Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View" - 1991
In 1997, she was short-listed for the Turner Prize

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View
1991

"Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View" was a piece created after Parker herself pressed the button that detonated and blew up a shed she had taken to the Banbury Army School of Ammunition. The point of hanging it was to rob it of its pathos, and also reanimated the pieces.

Mass (Cold Dark Matter)
1997

Mass (Cold Dark Matter) was exhibited at the 1997 Turner Prize exhibition, and was an arrangement of the charred remains of a church that had been struck by lightning in Texas, in the visual form of a suspended cube.

Anti-Mass
2005

Anti-Mass was the companion piece to Mass (Cold Dark Matter) and was made using charcoal from a black congregation church in Alabama, which had been destroyed by Arson.