El Sueño
Artist:
Cecilia Paredes
(Peruvian, born 1950)
Place made:Costa Rica
Date: 2002
Dimensions:
30 1/2 x 61 x 4 in. (77.5 x 154.9 x 10.2 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Fund for the Acquisition of Modern Latin American Art
Object number: 2008.2.2
Copyright: © Cecilia Paredes
Label Text
Employing her own body, Cecilia Paredes’s photo performance implies a continuity between all living things and a shared experience of the life cycle. She is pictured lying face down on a bed of leaves with taxidermic birds on her back, loaned from the Natural History Museum in Costa Rica where the artist lived for twenty-four years. To invoke memory and migration in her work, Paredes transforms her body to blend in with her surroundings. Displayed on a light box, this image suggests the observation of a scientific specimen, but also that of an ethereal vision. The title translates to The Dream.
(Lana Meador, 2022)
(Lana Meador, 2022)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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