CRUTCHER

by Hanni Kamaly

Artist Hanni Kamaly (Norge, född 1988)

Date2017-2021

MediumSteel

DimensionsYttermått: 269 × 181 × 196 cm

ClassificationSculptures

Credit LinePurchase 2020 funded by The Sten Eckedals and Majken Eckedals Foundation

Countries

Sweden, Norway

Object NumberMOM/2020/54

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkThe sculpture CRUTCHER confronts us in the room. In its monumentality and hard, industrial materials, it can come across as mighty and threatening, but its construction also makes it fragile and vulnerable. Hanni Kamaly’s skeletal sculptures are somewhere between human and inhuman. They ask us how we see life and how we relate to the lives of others alternately as subjects and objects according to our own motives. Her sculptures are often named after people who are the victims of colonial or state violence. Terence Crutcher was an African-American who was shot to death unarmed next to his car in the street during a police intervention in Tulsa in 2016. How should he be commemorated?
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad

Works by the artist