About The Work
Laura Lima uses costume and the human body in her art to question everyday social behaviors. In Gala Chickens, Lima continues to explore ornamentation and social roles via new subjects: chickens in a homemade chicken coop. Lima adorned each chicken with colorful feathers recalling the disguised revelers of the popular Brazilian carnival tradition.
This photograph was part of an installation at the 2011 Lyon Biennial called Une Terrible Beauté est Née (A Terrible Beauty Is Born), after W.B. Yeats's 1916 poem "Easter." The work received many positive reviews and was singled out as one of the most original installations at the Biennial.
About Laura Lima
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Can Abstract Painting Be Political? Curator Alex Gartenfeld on the Secret Power Relations Embedded in Contemporary Canvases
- Interviews & Features: In Search of a More Equal Art History: Curator Adrienne Edwards on the Upending Power of "Blackness in Abstraction"
- Interviews & Features: Why Won’t Artists Leave Animals Alone? On the Questionable Ethics, and Rising Popularity, of Critter Art
- News & Events: Is Performa 15 for the Birds? When It Comes to Laura Lima's Fancy-Dress Chicken Party, It's a Resounding Yes
- News & Events: 9 Artists to Watch This August
Print made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper with glossy finish
12.00 x 17.00 in
30.5 x 43.2 cm
This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist.
About The Work
Laura Lima uses costume and the human body in her art to question everyday social behaviors. In Gala Chickens, Lima continues to explore ornamentation and social roles via new subjects: chickens in a homemade chicken coop. Lima adorned each chicken with colorful feathers recalling the disguised revelers of the popular Brazilian carnival tradition.
This photograph was part of an installation at the 2011 Lyon Biennial called Une Terrible Beauté est Née (A Terrible Beauty Is Born), after W.B. Yeats's 1916 poem "Easter." The work received many positive reviews and was singled out as one of the most original installations at the Biennial.
About Laura Lima
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Can Abstract Painting Be Political? Curator Alex Gartenfeld on the Secret Power Relations Embedded in Contemporary Canvases
- Interviews & Features: In Search of a More Equal Art History: Curator Adrienne Edwards on the Upending Power of "Blackness in Abstraction"
- Interviews & Features: Why Won’t Artists Leave Animals Alone? On the Questionable Ethics, and Rising Popularity, of Critter Art
- News & Events: Is Performa 15 for the Birds? When It Comes to Laura Lima's Fancy-Dress Chicken Party, It's a Resounding Yes
- News & Events: 9 Artists to Watch This August
- The quoted dimensions are for the paper size. The image size is 10.5 x 14 inches.
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