Moving Pictures Highlights Overview
ROBERT SMITHSON
VITO ACCONCI
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
PETER FISCHLI/DAVID WEISS
ANN HAMILTON
ANDREAS GURSKY
SHIRIN NESHAT
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD
KARA WALKER
RINEKE DIJKSTRA
OLAFUR ELIASSON
PIERRE HUYGHE
GABRIEL OROZCO
INIGO MANGLANO-OVALLE
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untitled (aleph), 1992/1993. Color-toned video and LCD screen, with sound; 00:30:00; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Edition 3/9. Gift, Ginny Williams Family Foundation. 94.4258
ANN HAMILTON

Ann Hamilton's work foregrounds sensory experience and evokes memories that are rooted in the body, operating in a seemingly prelinguistic or nonverbal realm. The videos shown here—originally components of larger installations for which Hamilton is best known—are intimate explorations of bodily experience and convey visually what is experienced through touch. In each piece, an ordinary somatic function—speaking, hearing—is compromised and overwhelmed by a purely tactile sensation. Water runs down a neck in untitled (dissections . . . they said it was an experiment) (1998/1993), deluges an ear in untitled (the capacity of absorption) (1988/1993), and floods a mouth in untitled (linings) (1990/1993), while in untitled (aleph) (1992/1993) rocks fill a mouth that struggles to create speech. The only video that incorporates sound, untitled (aleph) takes its name from the shape the mouth forms in the transition between silence and speech.