About The Work
This unique edition by Pia Camil was produced by Nottingham Contemporary on the occasion of the exhibition Split Wall, 2018.
The edition is a miniature version of the artist's mask motif, which populates the artists work both as ceramic sculptures and theatrical props. The masks, inspired by jewellery display busts, engage with Carl Jung’s concept of persona – our public mask or public image.
Exquisitely sculpted to resemble the mask, They’s Index doubles as a wearable manicure nail. Camil commissioned a manicurist in a Mexico City street market to make each nail-sculpture, which like jewellery, rests on it’s own cast concrete plinth.
Originally referenced as a prop in Camil’s film They, in which the protagonist They lives inside a mask that resembles a house and performs intimate and private activities within such as lying down reading, eating a sandwich, dancing with abandon or removing nail varnish.
Courtesy of Nottingham Contemporary
About Pia Camil
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Design and Decorative Arts
Sculpted acrylic nail and cast concrete plinth.
5.75 x 3.15 x 3.15 in
14.6 x 8.0 x 8.0 cm
This work comes with a certificate of authenticity signed and numbered by the artists.
About The Work
This unique edition by Pia Camil was produced by Nottingham Contemporary on the occasion of the exhibition Split Wall, 2018.
The edition is a miniature version of the artist's mask motif, which populates the artists work both as ceramic sculptures and theatrical props. The masks, inspired by jewellery display busts, engage with Carl Jung’s concept of persona – our public mask or public image.
Exquisitely sculpted to resemble the mask, They’s Index doubles as a wearable manicure nail. Camil commissioned a manicurist in a Mexico City street market to make each nail-sculpture, which like jewellery, rests on it’s own cast concrete plinth.
Originally referenced as a prop in Camil’s film They, in which the protagonist They lives inside a mask that resembles a house and performs intimate and private activities within such as lying down reading, eating a sandwich, dancing with abandon or removing nail varnish.
Courtesy of Nottingham Contemporary
About Pia Camil
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Female forms - shape making among great women artists
- Art 101: "What I'd Buy This November '19": Artspace's Advisor Shares the Artworks in Her Cart
- Art 101: The 'Vitamin T' List: 113 Artists on the Cutting-Edge of Textile Art
- Interviews & Features: 8 Mexico City-Based Emerging Artists You Need to Know
- News & Events: Why to Buy Pia Camil's Wearable Works of Art
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