Durango

Description

Durango’s padded interior—discarded cloth rags wrapped around a wood stretcher bar—gives way to a sturdy, skin-like musculature, creating a tension between the seeming corporeality of the structure and its synthetic materials. The anthropomorphic form engages ideas of process, labor, and materiality that connect feminist strategies and concerns of Minimal and Postminimal art. By adopting repetitive and additive procedures such as wrapping, braiding, and binding as sculptural practice, the artist recuperates physical activities often associated with women’s domestic work. The sculpture’s coiled form registers and makes visible Hammond’s labor, rendering her physical engagement with its materials an integral part of the work itself.

Durango

Harmony Hammond

1979

Accession Number

64961

Medium

Fabric, wood, foam, latex rubber, gesso, and rhoplex

Dimensions

78.7 × 180.3 × 45.7 cm (31 × 71 × 18 in.)

Classification

sculpture

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Judith Daner