Karen Finley
Remembrance


wooden box, sand
3.375 h x 10.75 w x 8.75 d in (9 x 27 x 22 cm)

In performance artist Karen Finley's memorial installation Written in Sand (1992-94), damp sand symbolically represents human ashes and cremated remains. Placed in dim rooms with flickering votive candles, the sand hills act as proxy graves where mourners inscribe and then smooth out the names of those lost, acknowledging that memory-like names written in sand-is painfully irretrievable.This somber, meditative installation directly served as a poignant AIDS memorial, confronting the mass loss of the epidemic by bringing the intimacy of grief into the public sphere.

Titled to inside of lid 'Remembrance'.

This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Work is in good condition. Minor surface scratches to wooden box, more prominent to underside. Otherwise, work presents well.