Untitled (6 Candles)

The scale of Lorna Simpson’s “Untitled (Six Candles)” is deliberately monumental, composed as a grid of twenty-five black-framed Polaroid prints rising over ten feet high and nearly nine feet in width. Within each frame, a radically simple composition is repeated: a woman’s left hand rests upon a flat surface, the curve of her thumb and palm cradling a group of six lit, colored tapers; as the viewer’s eye moves from right to left, top to bottom, the flame consumes the candle wax, drawing itself ever closer to vulnerable flesh.

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Created during a residency with the Polaroid Foundation at the height of the AIDS epidemic, “Untitled (Six Candles)” reflected Simpson’s grappling with “death and absence, using candles to reflect the passing of time.” Simpson’s grant from Polaroid was arranged by the Aperture Foundation and gave her access to one of the only 20x24 inch Polaroid cameras in the world at that time. Fittingly, the camera was originally intended for medical research; in Simpson’s hands, it became a tool for creating twenty-five unique photographic prints that invoked the horrific loss of life due to HIV/AIDS in 1992–a year in which the virus was the leading cause of death for men ages 25 to 44 years old.

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Kilder

Untitled (2 Necklines)

Untitled (2 Necklines)

1978-88

Coiffure

Counting

Shoe Lover

10: Artist as Catalyst

Untitled

Untitled, 1970

Marble Chair, 2008

With You I Want to Live, 2007

Untitled: Four Etchings [B], 1992

Untitled: Four Etchings [D], 1992

Untitled: Four Etchings [A], 1992

Untitled: Four Etchings [C], 1992

Untitled (6 Candles)

Ja, det tager imod

Om værket

Oplysninger

Mere af Lorna Simpson

I samme sal · G373, Minneapolis Institute of Art

I kataloget

Kilder

Untitled (2 Necklines)

Untitled (2 Necklines)

1978-88

Coiffure

Counting

Shoe Lover

10: Artist as Catalyst

Untitled

Untitled, 1970

Marble Chair, 2008

With You I Want to Live, 2007

Untitled: Four Etchings [B], 1992

Untitled: Four Etchings [D], 1992

Untitled: Four Etchings [A], 1992

Untitled: Four Etchings [C], 1992