Cornelia Parker is a London-based artist, internationally recognised for her work in sculpture and installation as well as embroidery, drawing, photography, and film. In this lecture, Never Endings, she will discuss her recent (and not so recent) adventures in making art, her 2022 survey exhibition at Tate Britain, and her abiding interest in all that is unstable.
Cornelia Parker (b. 1956, Cheshire) has been concerned with formalising forces beyond our control, containing the volatile and transforming it into something that is quiet and contemplative. She is fascinated with processes in the world that mimic cartoon ‘deaths’ – steamrollering, shooting full of holes, falling from cliffs and explosions. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions, her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary. Working with sculpture and installation, as well as embroidery, drawing, photography and film, Parker positions her subjects at the very moment of their transformation, suspended in time and completely still.
